Monday, January 12, 2009

Dojo - Javascript Framework

Overview

- Dojo is a HTML and Javascript Framework for Rich interactive Applications
- Dojo offers many widgets, utilities and ajax libraries to develop your application.
- Open source under BSD license
- Robus Ajax framework
- Programmer can use just API to build powerful functions
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Basic components

Tree,Button,Calendar control,Grid,List box

Pros

Associative arrays
Loosely typed variables
Regular expressions
Objects and classes
Highly evolved date, math, and string libraries
W3C DOM support in the Dojo

Challenges:

- Browser dependent; applicable for any client framework
- No way to hide dojo code in view source

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