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5th April 2009 - Link Blog

Ext Core 3.0 Beta Released. The Ext JavaScript team have just released the core library (similar to jQuery or Prototype) under an MIT license. The rich GUI elements that go on top are still under the GPL.

Posted 5th April 2009 at 8:17 pm

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