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  • Internet Explorer 6 on its way out (or not)?

    Since attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been rapidly losing market share. As the end of 2008 approaches, significant online services, vendors and web frameworks are dropping support for IE6. Will this year be the end of IE6 and what does this signify for Web 2.0 developers?

  • Nexaweb contributes code to the Dojo JavaScript Toolkit

    Nexaweb has contributed new software to the Dojo Foundation that aims to advance the use of open source AJAX technology within a company's critical business applications. The software, dubbed 'dojo.E' is a set of extensions to the Dojo Toolkit, that bring XML into Dojo components and a new API for managing DOM modifications based on user interaction.

  • New Thin Server Architecture and SOFEA Working Group Web Site Launched

    Peter Svensson, Ganesh Prasad, and Mario Valente have teamed up to create the Thin Server Architecture Working Group and launched a web site. The site included several resources about Thin Server Architecture and Service Oriented Front End Applications (SOFEA) as well as insight into the philosophy behind the technology.

  • Comet: Sub-Second Latency with 10K+ Concurrent Users

    Comet - technology that allows a sever to send over HTTP a message to the client when an event occurs, without the client having to explicitly request it - has been considered by some to scale poorly in the past. Recent tests using Cometd and Jetty as well as Lightstreamer production implementations prove the opposite.

  • Dojo Toolkit 1.0 is Released with Google Gears Integration, Accessibility Support and Charting

    The Dojo Foundation has released Dojo Toolkit 1.0. Dojo is used in products from companies such as AOL, BEA, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.

  • Interview: Joe Walker discusses DWR

    InfoQ spoke with Joe Walker at QCon London 2007 about the DWR toolkit. Walker discussed DWR 2.0 including new features such as details about reverse AJAX, the deal with TIBCO, DWR support in IDEs, the integration with Spring, future plans for DWR, and interesting applications of DWR from the very large to the very flashy.

  • Dojo 0.9 Goes Final with Significant Performance Improvements

    Dojo 0.9 final version was released today after close to 7 weeks in beta release. This release scales down the code base, removing unnecessary items. At the same time significant performance improvements have been made.

  • Picking an Ajax Framework

    Dr. Dobbs is currently featuring a case study of the Ajax framework selection process of a development team at T. Rowe Price. The article considers GWT, Dojo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, and Yahoo UI Library.

  • Dojo Offline demo released with API

    Brad Neuberg has released a screencast of a web-based word processor running on Dojo Offline. At the same time, the Javascript API is being released and is ready for evaluation.

  • Interview with Ajaxian.com's Dion Almaer

    In this interview Ajaxian cofounder Dion Almaer talks about the state of Ajax development today. Among the items he discusses are the history of how Ajax came to be, which frameworks he recommends developers consider, and tooling/debuggins support. Almaer also talks about security and general design considerations that need to be respected when creating Ajax enabled applications.

  • Offline Storage Mechanisms Compared

    Niall Kennedy has written an article on boosting Ajax performance using local storage. He discusses four different local storage mechanisms (cookies, Flash local shared object, userData in IE, and DOM storage in Firefox), mentions Dojo Storage as a way to abstract them and concludes that local storage is the next logical step for Ajax applications.

  • Interview with Brad Neuberg of the Dojo Offline Toolkit

    Recently InfoQ sat down with Brad Neuberg, creator of the Dojo Offline Toolkit, to talk about the project. Dojo Offline is a project seeking to be a small, cross-platform, generic download that enables web applications to work offline.

  • Four Ways to Ajax Enable a Java EE Application

    Sun's Developer Network posted a series of four articles late last year on different ways to add Ajax to a Java EE application. Each article covers a different way of adding in Ajax, including do-it-yourself, using Dojo, JSF components, and JSF phase listeners.

  • Dojo Gains Charting Engine

    Today, Greenplum and SitePen announced the contribution of the new Charting engine to the Dojo Toolkit. The Charting engine is a cross-browser way of creating very complex charts easily, that can be updated on a regular basis.

  • Alex Russell on Dojo 0.4

    The Dojo Foundation just released version 0.4 of their JavaScript toolkit with key improvements of accessibility, a 2D vector graphics API, improved internationalization support, and inline API documentation. InfoQ sat with Alex Russell, project lead of the Dojo Toolkit to discuss the new release.

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