February 15th, 2011 – by Kris Zyp
Dojo 1.6 introduces a new data store API called Dojo Object Store. This new store API is based on the HTML5 IndexedDB object store API and is designed to greatly simplify and ease the interaction and construction of Dojo stores. 
This new API follows HTTP/REST naming conventions and is compatible with the dojox.storage providers (for local storage, cookie storage, and WebSQL storage), as well as any other library that follows these open standards.
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Tags: IndexedDB
Posted in Dojo, HTML5 | 11 Comments
February 14th, 2011 – by Kris Zyp
Dojo (core) and Dijit 1.6 have been refactored to follow the proposed CommonJS AMD API.
Module Compatibility
Dojo modules are now completely compatible with:
Flexibility, Performance, and Stack Traces
This refactoring gives Dojo excellent flexibility going forward, to support both legacy synchronous loading mechanisms, as well as new asynchronous script-tag based loading that provides significant performance boosts and debugging improvement (including real stack traces!).
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Posted in CommonJS, Dojo, JavaScript, Persevere | 4 Comments