Since Dojo 1.1 was released a week ago, several outlets have published articles:

• Dojo 1.1 Refines Ajax Development - Features SitePen’s Peter Higgins and Alex Russell with their thoughts on Dojo 1.1, and a comprehensive summary of what’s new with the 1.1 release
• Dojo Stabilizes Open Source Ajax Toolkit - Mentions Dojo backing from IBM, Sun, AOL and Nexaweb, and gives a summary of IBM and Nexaweb’s opinions of Dojo 1.1
• Dojo Encourages Ajax Innovation - The facts aren’t particularly solid in this one, but it’s still nice to see Dojo get mentioned
• Adobe AIR for Linux - Mentions Dojo working on AIR
• What’s new with Google Gears - Includes a short section about Dojo Storage and the Gears Dojo data provider

This past Friday, we pushed Dojo 0.9 Milestone Release 2 out of the nest. This is the last milestone before Beta and the system is starting to take a recognizable shape. Only thinner.

Here’s what’s new and awesome in M2:

• Dijit has landed! Holy cow is it fast. Stay tuned for themes and more widgets.
• Layered builds. Slice and dice your builds any way you like to achieve maximum performance
• Style code is now even faster
• Lots of new modules, bug fixes, and quality APIs

(more…)

We’ve pushed out the beta of Dojo Offline! See the official Dojo weblog for details.

[Note: This blog post is out of date. For up to date information on Dojo Offline please see the official web page.]

Hi folks; lots of news on the Dojo Offline front.First, we have put up a screencast that shows a demo of Dojo Offline named Moxie. Moxie is an example application bundled with Dojo Offline that shows how to use the Dojo Offline framework. It is a web-based word processor that features local storage and offline access. Moxie is now finished for Dojo Offline.

Watch the Dojo Offline Screencast

Next, we’ve finished the JavaScript layer of Dojo Offline. Dojo Offline consists of two major pieces: a JavaScript API that is included with a web application, and which helps with syncing, on/offline status notification, caching of data and resources, etc.; and a local small web proxy download that is cross-platform and cross-browser and which is web application independent. The JavaScript API is now finished, and can actually be used even though we have not finished the local web proxy yet. This is done by having the JavaScript layer be able to use the browser’s native cache if no offline cache is available. This means you can start playing with Dojo Offline right now, with the download link included in this blog post below. Note that using the browser cache instead of the web proxy is only suitable for prototyping and should not be deployed on production applications; it will work with varying degrees of success on Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not consistently on Safari. Higher levels of reliability will only come when we deliver the local web proxy component.

(more…)

Just to let folks know, we are posting weekly status updates for the Dojo Offline Toolkit over on the SitePen Labs blog every Monday. Make sure to check it out each week to see how our progress is going! View the blog here, or grab it’s RSS feed here for your RSS reader to subscribe to updates.