Dojo Toolkit 0.3.0 review

Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time

License: Other/Proprietary License File size: 1188K Developer: Alex Russell

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Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. Dojo Toolkit project fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don't go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces.

Dojo lets you prototype interactive widgets quickly, animate transitions, and build Ajax requests with the most powerful and easiest to use abstractions available. These capabilities are built on top of a lightweight packaging system, so you never have to figure out which order to request script files in again.

Dojo's package system and optional build tools help you develop quickly and optimize transparently.

Dojo also packs an easy to use widget system. From prototype to deployment, Dojo widgets are HTML and CSS all the way. Best of all, since Dojo is portable JavaScript to the core, your widgets can be portable between HTML, SVG, and whatever else comes down the pike. The web is changing, and Dojo can help you stay ahead.

Dojo makes professional web development better, easier, and faster. In that order.

What's New in This Release:
A new, high-performance, well-tested storage engine was added.
A new, lightweight animation engine was added.
Cross-domain AJAX and package loading support were added.
Less boilerplate is needed when writing widgets thanks to dojo.widget.defineWidget.
Many new widgets were added, including SortableTable, TitlePane, Form validation, Menus, Menu bars, Google maps, and Yahoo maps.