Dojo 0.3.0 Now Available

Dojo 0.3.0 was released with many new features. Dojo must be the best JavaScript library, it really makes me think if I should rewrite some ColdFusion components to generate Dojo widgets and Ajax binding ... sounds like a great project too me, if you're interested drop me an email.

At the Ajax Experience, Alex demonstrated a new use of the Flash Platform with Ajax: storage! Flash has be ability of storing large amount of data local objects, which is something like a Flash Cookie. By default you can store 300k of persistent data, up to 500k. Dojo makes use of this storage transparently by using a 1px flash component ... really neat.

The latest release of Dojo has a slew of new features, including:

• Less boilerplate when writing widgets
• A new lightweight animation system that makes using and building animations dead simple
• Tested, high-performance local storage engine
• Cross-domain Ajax support and cross-domain package loading
• The ability to bundle CSS as well as HTML in profile builds
• Better performance
• New widgets:
  • SortableTable
  • TitlePane
  • Form validation
  • Menus and menu bars
  • Google and Yahoo maps
• And more than a hundred other bug fixes and improvements.