Shrinking frameworks; Dojo in 6k
Ajaxian (Jul 3 2008)
Dojo
Dojo is a framework that you can bend for your needs. You have very fine grained control on what you want in your base dojo.js, how other components are loaded, and a final custom JavaScript file. Brad Neuberg showed a project, SearchTools, that added local search via Gears, and had a custom Dojo that wasn't Dojo [...]
Working with Web Services with ease; dojo.data and the WikipediaStore
Ajaxian (Jun 27 2008)
Dojo
Revin Guillen has posted about the Dojo dojo.data API and how you can layer access to Web services in a very elegant way. His example shows building access to Wikipedia (demo): Dojo recently received a new data store that demonstrates exactly what we want: dojox.data.WikipediaStore. It does just what it sounds like, turning Wikipedia into a simple [...]
Badging Flickr with Dojo
Ajaxian (Jun 25 2008)
Dojo
Dylan Schiemann has a really nice case study post on implementing a Flickr badge with Dojo. What is particularly interesting is how he starts with a simple version: PLAIN TEXT HTML: ... img.thing { width:50px; height:50px; } ... ... ...
Dojo gets Aim Api Support from AOL
Ajaxian (Jun 17 2008)
Dojo
James Burke of AOL announced that AOL has released Dojo modules which wrap AOL’s Web AIM API. This is a very big announcement as the Web AIM API lets developers incorporate core AIM functionality into any web page including the ability to sign on, send and receive IMs, and obtain a user’s Buddy List. My [...]
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: A Double Dose of Dojo
Ajaxian (Jun 11 2008)
Dojo
The team at Dojo have been really working hard to improve their documentation and put more information in the hands of Dojo developers. Between DojoCampus.org and the SitePen blog, they've really come a long way to providing solid education material for the Dojo community. Normally, the Ajaxian Featured Tutorial consists of one really good educational [...]
Nexaweb announces dojo.E markup and runtime
Ajaxian (Jun 4 2008)
Dojo
Nexaweb has released a new product that build on Dojo, dojo.E: dojo.E provides developers with the ability to use an XML based markup language to add in their Ajax behaviors. Markup whether — XML, HTML or CSS — simplifies development by allow developers to convey in simple text format what they would otherwise need to convey [...]
Dojo.Workers: A ShowcaseAjaxian (May 27 2008)
Dojo
Pete Higgins of Dojo has created a nice example, dojo.workers, that puts together coverflow with Dijit and some dojo.query animations. He even takes out his frustrations with IE 6 as he creates a branch that looks like this ;) PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var newp = function(){ // IE6 branch of this demo window.location.href = "http://" + (confirm("Is it 2008?") ? "webkit.org" [...]
Meet the Makers | The Dojo Toolkit
Index of / (May 23 2008)
Dojo
The Dojo Toolkit Logo The Dojo Toolkit is an open-source DHTML Library released under either the AFL 2.1 or greater, OR the New BSD Lisence. It is available free or charge or commercial obligation, and is maintained by the individuals listed on this page. These are the core committers. Defenders of IP, and wonderful innovators
Dojo and Zend Framework Integratation Released
Ajaxian (May 21 2008)
Dojo
The Zend Framework aims to be a top notch framework for building next generation Web applications in PHP. Dojo has similar aims on the front-end side, so they decided to join forces to provide an integration layer. If you like the combination you will have a better, tighter, way to build your applications. What we see [...]
Exclusive Mastering Dojo Chapters
Ajaxian (May 9 2008)
Dojo
Craig Riecke, Rawld Gill, and Alex Russell, along with the Pragmatic Programmers themselves have been kind enough to give the Ajaxian community some exclusive extracts from the Mastering Dojo beta book. What do we have on the docket? First, we have details on the Dojo DOM Apis. Specifically, the author takes us through a challenge involving interview [...]
Ajax Pioneer Week: Alex Russell of Dojo
Ajaxian (May 8 2008)
Dojo
Last, but never least, is Alex Russell of the Dojo Toolkit and SitePen. In Alex’s five minutes of video footage for our JavaOne talk, he explained how Dojo enables you to built fantastic, responsive applications for everyone. The everyone piece revolves around accessibility too, which is core to Dojo thanks to work from Becky Gibson [...]
Porting Dojo Methods to Flash
Ajaxian (May 6 2008)
Dojo
Mike Wilcox has started a nice series of posts on porting Dojo methods to Flash as a homage for Open Screen (aside: I applaud Adobe's intentions, but need to see a non-assert of their IP before I can do anything with it.) In part one of the series Mike ports dojo.hitch to ActionScript: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: _global.lang = { [...]
Usable Directory Listings with Dojo
Ajaxian (Apr 30 2008)
Dojo
Sam Foster has written up an example of using Dojo to create directory listings with keyboard shortcuts. You can now tab over to the box on the top right, and filter your selections: This tutorial shows you how to upgrade those plain vanilla pages to make getting around a little faster and along the way introduce you [...]
DOH, let me test my code!
Ajaxian (Apr 16 2008)
Dojo
Dustin Machi has posted on DOH, the Dojo Objective Harness which is a testing framework for JavaScript. It can be used with your own Dojo applications, and even without any Dojo at all. To do this you need to follow a couple of patterns, and Dustin documents them so you can get going. You end up putting the [...]
Dojo XHR Plugins; How do you want your XHR today?
Ajaxian (Apr 15 2008)
Dojo
Neil Roberts goes into the XHR Plugins that Dojo uses and how you can extend the system to have your own. If you look at dojo.xhrGet you will see "Acceptable values are: text (default), json, json-comment-optional, json-comment-filtered, javascript, xml", but: What you may not know is that the handleAs parameter is merely a way of specifying what [...]
Dojo 1.1 Nice Features
Ajaxian (Apr 10 2008)
Dojo
Alex Russell has written up some of the features of Dojo 1.1 that may not shout out at you in the release notes: Core I should mention a couple of Core features from 1.1 that might otherwise go overlooked, though. The first is a lack of visible change. Dojo Core and Dijit from 1.1 are fully backwards [...]
Dojo Campus - Feature ExplorerDojo Campus (Apr 4 2008)
Dojo
Home | Articles Overview | Dojo Cookies | Dojo Feature Explorer Dojo Base the JavaScript Toolkit DojoX Extensions, and extras Dijit Widget system Explorer Home Dojo Feature Explorer Search: Welcome to the Dojo Feature Explorer This is the Dojo Feature Explorer page. Here you will find useful demos of all of Dojo's features. All demos include their source code, either in HTML markup, JavaScript, or both. Dojo FX, Animations Dijit ...
Dojo-Mini and the Feature Explorer
Ajaxian (Apr 4 2008)
Dojo
Above is the breakdown from the Dojo distribution. Peter Higgins was working on an AIR application using the new Dojo AIR integration and wanted to do a better job at stripping down the Dojo build for what he needed. He ended up with a set of scripts to create a custom build nicely which includes: Nuking all [...]
Dojo 1.1 Released
Ajaxian (Mar 28 2008)
Dojo
The Dojo team has released version 1.1 which includes from over 800 improvements: An easy to use and significantly improved Dojo API Viewer with some seriously great features, including the ability to easily find the original definition of a method that is “mixed-in” A growing collection of demos, tutorials, and articles A new BorderContainer Dijit, which is a [...]