Simon Willison’s Weblog

Google AJAX Libraries API (via) Google are hosting copies of jQuery, Prototype, mooTools and Dojo on their CDN, with a promise to permanently host different versions and an optional JavaScript API to dynamically load the most recent version of a library. I wish they’d stop capitalising Ajax though. 27th May 2008, 5:56 pm

AOP aspect of JavaScript with Dojo. Fantastic post—concisely explains Aspect Oriented Programming, then shows how Dojo’s dojox.lang.aspect brings AOP to JavaScript, including some really useful built-in aspects for logging, profiling and more. Aspects are like Python decorators on steroids. 18th May 2008, 10:45 am

Doctype: /trunk/goog. Google’s newly released JavaScript library (pure JavaScript, so more along the lines of YUI and jQuery than GWT). I haven’t found the documentation for it yet, but the code is extremely well commented. UPDATE: The documentation is spread throughout Doctype. 14th May 2008, 9:12 pm

Embedding custom non-visible data in HTML 5. “Every HTML element may have any number of attributes starting with the string ’data-’ specified, with any value.”—this will be incredibly useful for unobtrusive JavaScript where there’s no sensible place to store configuration data as HTML content. It will also mean Dojo has an approved method for adding custom attributes to declaratively instantiate Dojo widgets. 19th April 2008, 10:58 pm

Firebug + Dijit tips. News to me: Firebug has a magic $1 variable which corresponds to the currently selected node. Very handy. 17th March 2008, 2:08 am

dojox.gfx demos. Impressive demos of the Dojo 2D drawing APIs—these need to be linked from the dojo site, it took me quite a while to find them. 16th March 2008, 4:24 pm

Insert Dojo and YUI bookmarklets. Combine with Jash for interactive API experimentation on any web page. 9th December 2007, 12:38 pm

Eye-Fi launches. Really neat idea: a digital camera SD card with built-in WiFi to beam your photos straight to your laptop. SitePen built the UI, which runs in your browser on top of Dojo and talks to a small web server running locally. 11th November 2007, 10:40 pm

dojo.NodeList API docs. Support in Dojo for jQuery-style chaining operations. 8th November 2007, 11:16 am

Announcing Dojo 1.0. The tough learning curve that accompanied 0.4 and earlier has been replaced with an elegant core module (dojo) and two exciting subprojects (dojox and dijit). Well worth a look. 7th November 2007, 1:17 pm

YUI 2.3.0. New components are a rich text editor, dojo-style package loader, lazy ImageLoader, colour picker and unit test framework. Easier skinning as well. 1st August 2007, 8:20 am

Dojo Offline on Google Gears. “The great news is that the Dojo crew were in the loop wrt this project, and Brad has ported Dojo Offline to use Google Gears as the base platform.” 31st May 2007, 8:28 am

dojo.query: A CSS Query Engine For Dojo. I incorrectly criticised Dojo for not having a CSS node selection tool in my talk yesterday; not sure how I missed this. 17th May 2007, 9:40 am

Dojo 0.9 Update. Big changes are under way in the Dojo camp. 29th April 2007, 8:18 pm

The Dojo Offline Toolkit (via) A small client runtime provides a proxy server which offline applications can use to store data; a client library provides code for online/offline detection and data synchronisation. 23rd April 2007, 11:56 am

The website to web application gradient. Jeremy snapped this cunning illustration at my JavaScript Libraries panel at the Web 2.0 Expo. 20th April 2007, 12:30 am

Offline Gmail and Blogger Using the Dojo Offline Toolkit. These are just mockups at the moment, but they’re a useful illustration of how offline browsing modes for Web applications could work. 10th January 2007, 12:40 pm

The Dojo Offline Toolkit. The Dojo Offline Toolkit will be a small, cross-platform, generic download that enables web applications to work offline. 7th January 2007, 10:24 pm

Create cross browser vector graphics. An accessible introduction to dojo.gfx, a powerful 2D drawing API built on SVG and VML. 20th December 2006, 12:42 am

Including Dojo, The Really Easy Way. Drop in a single include to load code on demand from AOL’s CDN. 28th November 2006, 12:22 pm

Dojo 0.4 release notes (via) GFX (a 2D drawing API) is awesome; dojo.html.metrics looks extremely useful, and onDomLoad is always nice. 23rd October 2006, 12:39 am

XMLHttpRequests using an IFrame Proxy (via) Another scary hack abstracted away by Dojo. 1st August 2006, 5:40 pm

Rewind. Alex Russell quits Jot to work on Dojo full time. 9th May 2006, 7:40 am

Brad Neuberg introduces dojo.storage. Incredibly technically impressive, embodying months of accumulated expertise. 1st May 2006, 11:33 pm

The Dojo Manual (via) Dojo finally gets some really good extensive documentation. 24th December 2005, 6:21 pm

Rich Text Editing With Dojo. Utterly fantastic. Beautiful API, and it even works in Safari. 8th November 2005, 12:52 am

TurboDbAdmin. Ajax phpMyAdmin clone built on Dojo. Worth trying the live demo. 4th November 2005, 3:27 pm