Simon Willison’s Weblog

Secure mashups with dojox.secure (via) dojox.secure is brilliant and terrifying at the same time. It provides a full featured API for running untrusted JavaScript in a sandbox, by parsing and validating that code against a variant of Douglas Crockford’s ADsafe JavaScript subset. It could be fantastically useful, but it’s difficult to judge how secure this approach really is.

# 24th September 2008, 4:08 pm / dojox, dojo, javascript, security, sandboxing, adsafe, kriszyp, dojoxsecure, mashups

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 / aspects, aop, javascript, decorators, python, dojo, dojox, eugenelazutkin

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 / dojo, dojox, gfx, javascript, drawing, 2d

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 / dojo, javascript, dojox, dijit