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I’ll soon be confident to give Xanjax the thumbs up for version 1.0 official release.

There’s still work to be done defining API’s and finalising library and function names so it’ll still take some time, but the code seems to be stable now. If you find any bugs, please report them as soon as possible so they can be corrected prior to version 1.0 release.

There are two main areas I want to address in the short term, post version 1.0 release, with Xanjax. The first is a code tidy-up with an emphasis on further code size reduction and performance improvements, and the second is a super fast and compact widget library to put Xanjax firmly in the Web Application space.

I’d be very keen to get some coding and documenting assistance, so if you support free software philosophy, and are technically able to assist, please contact me. This would make a superb study project for anyone wanting a real challenge because the total Javascript code size of Xanjax including all extensions is still way under 20 kilobytes, so the bar is high. As far as I know, there is nothing coming anywhere near as small and fast as Xanjax, and as the technical director of the project, I intend to keep up the size/performance pressure, so it’s lots of fun trying to do the impossible!

I’ll be scaling back my own contributions to Xanjax for a while, because I’ve got business projects to attend to; but as these other projects will be based on Xanjax, any problems that arise should be noticed and fixed in due course. Then of course there’s always the possibility that there’ll be something that I need to do that Xanjax still doesn’t – leading to more development….