Wink, which stands for "Webapp Innovation Kit", is an open-source framework for building mobile web applications on devices such as the IPhone or Android (Android (operating system)). It is based on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The project started in early 2009 at Orange Labs (France Telecom R&D). Since June 17, 2010, Wink is a project of the Dojo Foundation.
Wink toolkit provides all the basic functionalities of a JavaScript framework: from DOM manipulation to asynchronous HTTP requests and also some mobile oriented features like touch and gestures events handling.
Beyond that, wink toolkit offers advanced graphical components, like HTML 3D tag clouds and shapes or multitouch components.
Packages
Wink toolkit is divided into 8 packages
core, which contains all the heart of the kit ui, for all the graphical components ux, interactions components mm, multimedia package net, for network related tasks api, to handle low level HTML5 features fx, for CSS transitions and transform (either 2D or 3D) math, a set of mathematic libraries
It also includes an "Easy caching" mechanism.
See also Dojo Toolkit
References
External links Official wink toolkit site