We are getting a few questions about when the components will work with Joomla 2.5, this is our current position and if it changes I'll update this FAQ.

EasyTable for J!

Sadly the free "EasyTable for J!" isn't well supported by the user base — even though we have litterally thousands of websites using the free version of the component there has been very little feedback on the Joomla Extension Directory and only 1 donation over the last 2 years. Feedback is important as without ratings and reviews new users don't get to see the component.

As a reference — the EasyTable for J! component in Feb 2011 made 173,560 version checks from approx. 153,000 unique IP's. Version checks are done once per session when the component is opened to add or modify a table. 

So, at this point I can't afford the time to upgrade it — if I get time in the future I will probably make a Joomla 1.6/1.7 2.5 installable version — like most people I have to focus on things that pay the bills.

To be clear if you like and use this component and you want to see a Joomla 2.5 version I suggest you vote for it on JED. This will increase it's exposure to other users and some of them may even like to use the Pro version.

EasyTable Pro

EasyTable Pro will get an upgrade to Joomla 2.5 but I'm not sure of the exact time frame — it will be after the 1.0 release — again it's simple economics. Work has started.

At this point I think EasyTable Pro is the 1.0 release (or close to final).

The work on this is done as and when we can. Even though we get people saying they love the Pro version nearly every day we've got only a few reviews on the JED. Compared to approx. 200 hundred copies paid for — apparently it's not good enough for people to spend a few seconds and vote for it — let alone write a review. On average each licensed copies appears to be running on approximately 60 different servers.

As a reference — the EasyTable Pro component in Feb 2011 made 15,977 version checks from approx. 12,300 unique IP's. Version checks are done once per session when the component is opened to add or modify a table.

With the latest versions we moved to a mechanism that uses the browsers cache and will only retrieve the version data when the browser expires the cache or the user does a forced refresh. This saw a dramatic drop in the hits on our server, thankfully, but we're still seeing about 3200 uniques IP's checking the version of EasyTable Pro each month.

Some people also seem to be happier to use versions they've downloaded from "free" websites. Recently this caused us an issue when a user of the "free" package blamed us for his site being hacked — that turned out to be a malicious version that was being distributed on the web.

Again if you're a happy user of the EasyTable Pro component may I suggest you vote for it on the JED.

Current as at 15th February 2012.