Angular News

Visualize Sequences with a New Timeline Component

June 3, 2024
jQWidgets 19.2.0 adds a new component for visualizing chronological data with support for interactive scrolling, customizable styles, and rich content.

jQWidgets is a comprehensive JavaScript UI framework offering a robust collection of over 60 widgets, themes, and utilities for building professional-grade, cross-platform web applications. Built on jQuery, HTML5, and CSS, it provides extensive functionality including data grids, charts, navigation, input validation, and more. jQWidgets simplifies web development, ensuring your applications work seamlessly across desktop browsers, tablets, and smartphones.

The jQWidgets 19.2 release adds the new jqxTimeline component. This allows for the visualization of events and activities in chronological order, aiding users in comprehending the flow and relationships between them. The timeline offers features such as chronological display, interactive elements for navigation and exploration, customizable styling for seamless application integration, support for rich content including text, images, and videos, and responsiveness for optimal viewing across various devices. These functionalities make the timeline component a valuable tool for applications in project management, historical references, education, and personal storytelling, by providing an engaging and clear way to present time-based information.

To see a full list of what's new in 19.2.0, see our release notes.

jQWidgets is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license 1 year support and maintenance. See our jQWidgets licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our jQWidgets product page.

Create Responsive Web Applications with Angular 18

June 3, 2024
Smart HTML Elements 19.1.0 introduces support for the latest Angular release, allowing developers to build web apps with new Angular features.

Smart HTML Elements is an enterprise-grade UI library offering pre-built web components for developers in Angular, React, Vue, Blazor, and JavaScript. It boasts over 60 ready-to-use components like grids, charts, schedulers, and editors, all featuring two-way data binding, responsiveness, accessibility, and theming capabilities. This library helps developers rapidly build dynamic and modern web applications with consistent look-and-feel and rich functionalities, accelerating development time and ensuring professional quality.

The Smart HTML Elements 19.1.0 release adds support for Angular 18, allowing developers to leverage the latest features and functionalities of Angular within their Smart HTML Elements components. Angular 18 introduces improvements in performance by tree-shaking unused code and better lazy loading, plus new features like standalone components and Angular templates in TypeScript.

To see a full list of what's new in 19.1.0, see our release notes.

Smart HTML Elements is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. It includes distribution to Unlimited Web applications, SaaS projects, Intranets and Websites. See our Smart HTML Elements licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Smart HTML Elements product page.

Streamline Web Reporting with XLS/XLSX Export

May 31, 2024
Angular reporting controls with XLS/XLSX export streamline collaboration by facilitating data exchange in universally accessible spreadsheet formats.

Reporting components with built-in XLS and XLSX export allow users to seamlessly generate Excel files directly from Angular web applications. This functionality empowers users to easily share and analyze report data in their preferred spreadsheet software, enhancing data accessibility and promoting informed decision-making. These components are particularly valuable for generating financial reports, sales data summaries, and other analytical exports.

Several Angular reporting components allow you to export reports to XLS or XLSX format:

  • DevExpress Reporting is a reporting platform that can be used in Angular applications to enable the export of reports to XLS or XLSX, enhancing data analysis and portability.
  • ActiveReportsJS by MESCIUS provides a report viewer that integrates with Angular apps and allows end-users to convert reports into XLS or XLSX formats.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.JS is an Angular-compatible report generator that enables you to design complex reports and export them to a variety of formats, including XLS and XLSX.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Angular reporting components.

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Enhance Angular Spreadsheet Readability

May 28, 2024
Choosing a spreadsheet control with cell formatting support makes your data easier to read, promotes consistency, and enhances user experience.

Cell formatting allows you to customize of the appearance and behavior of individual cells within a spreadsheet or data table to improve readability, comprehension, and accuracy of data presentation. This can encompass adjustments to font style, size, and color, as well as the inclusion of borders, shading, numeric or date formatting, cell alignment and so on. By employing cell formatting, users can significantly enhance the readability and organization of their spreadsheets, allowing for quicker data comprehension and clearer communication of the information they contain. It also helps in distinguishing different types of data, emphasizes important figures, and maintains consistency across related documents, thereby reducing the likelihood of errors and misinterpretations.

Several Angular spreadsheet components support cell formatting, including:

  • SpreadJS by MESCIUS facilitates extensive cell formatting for any cell property allowing Angular developers to create customized spreadsheet solutions.
  • Telerik Excel Export (part of Kendo UI) works with Angular and allows seamless data export to Microsoft Excel, supporting complex cell formatting, alignment, and more.
  • Jspreadsheet Pro offers spreadsheet-like controls tailored for Angular with tools to customize cell appearance, including fonts, colors, and number formats.
  • Infragistics Spreadsheet Angular (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) offers an Excel-like interface, providing cell formatting capabilities for dynamic and consistent data presentation.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Angular spreadsheet controls.

Compare Angular Spreadsheet Controls

Enhance Security for Scanned PDF Documents

May 28, 2024
Dynamic Web TWAIN 18.5 can now save scanned documents as password-protected PDFs, adding an extra layer of security.

Dynamic Web TWAIN by Dynamsoft is a Software Development Kit (SDK) that simplifies adding document scanning capabilities to your web applications. It offers cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility, allowing users to scan directly from various scanners and webcams using popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox. With just a few lines of JavaScript code, you can integrate powerful scanning features into your web applications, streamlining document management workflows.

The Dynamic Web TWAIN 18.5 release introduces a the ability to generate encrypted PDF files with password protection. This enhancement empowers users to create secure, password-restricted PDFs directly within their applications, eliminating the need for external tools and bolstering data security. This functionality is particularly advantageous for organizations in regulated industries or those handling sensitive information, as it ensures information confidentiality throughout the document lifecycle, from storage and sharing to archiving.

To see a full list of what's new in version 18.5, see our release notes.

Dynamic Web TWAIN is licensed per Client Device and is available as an Annual license. See our Dynamic Web TWAIN licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Dynamic Web TWAIN product page.