Javascript

Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don’t go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces. This project has Sun behind itself: on Downloadblog there is a post dedicated to a Videocast of Sun Developers about Dojo and Java Studio Creator. The “packages” organization of Dojo is very similar to Java Library: much coherent and clean. ...

Today, with my friend and co-worked Sbatman, we were trying to understand how the famous prototype.js library works. For not-Ajax developer: Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for Web 2.0 developers everywhere. After an afternoon without appreciable results ( 😢 ), Sbatman found that documentation online: Developer Notes for prototype.js. ...