#dojo

"Packed with useful information and lots' of insightful examples The Concise Guide to Dojo, taken from the forthcoming Professional JavaScript Frameworks book, provides experienced web developers a quick path to understanding and utilizing Dojo: a JavaScript based meta-framework for creating highly dynamic, visually appealing web sites. Logically organized, this guide quickly introduces the reader to Dojo and then quickly moves on to cover topics ranging from Manipulating DOM object, Event Handling, Utilizing AJAX, and working with additional Dojo add-on such as Dijit and DojoX."

Interesting perspective, with which I agree somewhat. Though, there's certainly something to be said for building a domain-specific language of convenience for DOM manipulation. "The more time someone spends building applications with a library like Prototype, the further they get from Javascript, and the more dependent they become on the library. By contrast, time spent using YUI tends to breed developers who are experts in Javascript, and that skill is far more useful than being an expert in a particular library."

"Here is a small demonstration of the many possible results achievable through the relatively small set of effects currently under development. Keep an eye on this page, because there are several more effects on the way! "

"These are the release notes for the Dojo 1.1 release (dojo core, dijit, and dojox)."

"The Dojo team has released version 1.1 which includes from over 800 improvements"

"We recently added JSONPath support to the Dojo Toolkit."

"The bling, one of the best global variables in JavaScript. A tool which has come to mean, as a function, a way to locate a node or set of nodes."

"in the firebug console, your selected node is available as $1"

"Nintendo.com has relaunched, and a view source shows you that it now sports Dojo, Mootools, and much more script."

"In Mastering Dojo, you’ll get the whole story, from basic usage to advanced idioms. Mastering Dojo starts out with a fast moving tutorial that will give you techniques that you can start using right away."

"The Dojo Offline Toolkit will be a small, cross-platform, generic download that enables web applications to work offline."

"Imagine if web applications could store megabytes of data on the client-side, in the browser, both persistently and securely. No server needed."