DHTMLX has, in the light of the latest update of its Ajax UI toolkit, released the newest version 1.6 of its dhtmlxGrid component, a feature-rich Ajax data grid for web applications. Along with fast and reliable performance and polished design, dhtmlxGrid, being the main "player" in DHTMLX components library, incorporates all the advanced functionality required for building rich tabular interfaces.

Providing the ability to load data from JSON and JS-array, being a pure client-side JavaScript component, dhtmlxGrid introduces with this release, more flexibility for client-server communication capabilities. So, now developers can chose which data format to use: CSV, JSON, XML, JS-array or simple HTML. Allowing developers to define custom XML attributes, since this update the grid supports custom XML format.

This new version adds lots of other enhancements, among which:
- Smart Rendering functionality that allows the component to work fast with large number of records is now available with any type of grid initialization: JS-arrayCSV, HTML, JSON, XML string;
- New nice-looking skin enhances paging view;
- Grid with huge datasets works even faster thanks to the dupdate of the dynamic paging to use non-linear buffer;
- Since recent update filters also work in hierarchical grids, Grouping and Filtering capabilities, as well as auto-calculated values in footer/header, were updated to work in split grid;
- New features in TreeGrid were introduced, such as paging support and Smart Rendering mode in which only rows situated in the visible area are rendered.
- Extended script API and new event handlers introduced.

This update also introduces, in addition to all the enhancements concerning the grid, a new member in DHTMLX components suite - dhtmlxSlider. The new component allows creating attractive horizontal or vertical slider bars.