This year we wanted to create an Dojo Conference / Event that is more inclusive for the Dojo Community than our traditional Dojo Developer Days. To that end, we have established a Dojo Conference, dojo.connect to provide an online virtual conference so that more people may attend and learn Dojo. The full conference is three days long, with the first two days consisting of practical sessions on how to use Dojo to build amazing web apps. The third day will consist of round tables and discussions centered around Dojo's future developmental goals.

These days many conferences are simply big marketing and networking exercises and can be very expensive to attend. This is especially true when travel is taken into account. It is often impractical for foreign visitors to come to the US to attend a conference or to get many US developers to attend overseas. Dojo.connect is different in that its goal is to provide practical information and education working with Dojo. Real-time interaction with speakers and attendees is not sacrificed however, and will be accomplished either via voice communication and/or text chat. Most of the active Dojo Developers and other active community members will be presenting various techniques, strategies, and advice to help developers and companies build great applications. Opportunities will exist to discuss and contribute to the future direction of Dojo through communication with those individuals that make Dojo happen.

A portion of the proceeds collected from the conference will be funneled back into the Dojo Foundation in order to support its on going efforts and infrastructure expenses.

We hope you will find the conference enjoyable and informative and will consider signing up and attending. For more information about dojo.connect, see http://widespreadconferences.com/dojoconnect.html.

This year we wanted to create an Dojo Conference / Event that is more inclusive for the Dojo Community than our traditional Dojo Developer Days. To that end, we have established a Dojo Conference, dojo.connect to provide an online virtual conference so that more people may attend and learn Dojo. The full conference is three days long, with the first two days consisting of practical sessions on how to use Dojo to build amazing web apps. The third day will consist of round tables and discussions centered around Dojo's future developmental goals.

These days many conferences are simply big marketing and networking exercises and can be very expensive to attend. This is especially true when travel is taken into account. It is often impractical for foreign visitors to come to the US to attend a conference or to get many US developers to attend overseas. Dojo.connect is different in that its goal is to provide practical information and education working with Dojo. Real-time interaction with speakers and attendees is not sacrificed however, and will be accomplished either via voice communication and/or text chat. Most of the active Dojo Developers and other active community members will be presenting various techniques, strategies, and advice to help developers and companies build great applications. Opportunities will exist to discuss and contribute to the future direction of Dojo through communication with those individuals that make Dojo happen.

A portion of the proceeds collected from the conference will be funneled back into the Dojo Foundation in order to support its on going efforts and infrastructure expenses.

We hope you will find the conference enjoyable and informative and will consider signing up and attending. For more information about dojo.connect, see http://widespreadconferences.com/dojoconnect.html.

This year we wanted to create an Dojo Conference / Event that is more inclusive for the Dojo Community than our traditional Dojo Developer Days. To that end, we have established a Dojo Conference, dojo.connect to provide an online virtual conference so that more people may attend and learn Dojo. The full conference is three days long, with the first two days consisting of practical sessions on how to use Dojo to build amazing web apps. The third day will consist of round tables and discussions centered around Dojo's future developmental goals.

These days many conferences are simply big marketing and networking exercises and can be very expensive to attend. This is especially true when travel is taken into account. It is often impractical for foreign visitors to come to the US to attend a conference or to get many US developers to attend overseas. Dojo.connect is different in that its goal is to provide practical information and education working with Dojo. Real-time interaction with speakers and attendees is not sacrificed however, and will be accomplished either via voice communication and/or text chat. Most of the active Dojo Developers and other active community members will be presenting various techniques, strategies, and advice to help developers and companies build great applications. Opportunities will exist to discuss and contribute to the future direction of Dojo through communication with those individuals that make Dojo happen.

A portion of the proceeds collected from the conference will be funneled back into the Dojo Foundation in order to support its on going efforts and infrastructure expenses.

We hope you will find the conference enjoyable and informative and will consider signing up and attending. For more information about dojo.connect, see http://widespreadconferences.com/dojoconnect.html.

There are a lot of great new features in the 1.4 release, all of which are document in the release notes. I just wanted to document a few of the especially big changes in dijit:

- Jared has done a lot of work on Editor, split between dijit.Editor and the dojox.editor plugins, including a full-screen mode plugin.

- Shane implemented scrolling tab labels (you've seen these at the top of your browser window); they are quite useful when they are lots of tabs in a single TabContainer.

- Multiple dialogs now can be opened too (one on top of the other).

- Finally, there was a lot of refactoring work done to fix architectural issues, particularly with ContentPane and Tree.

Anyway, check out the release notes for all the details!

There are a lot of great new features in the 1.4 release, all of which are document in the release notes. I just wanted to document a few of the especially big changes in dijit:

- Jared has done a lot of work on Editor, split between dijit.Editor and the dojox.editor plugins, including a full-screen mode plugin.

- Shane implemented scrolling tab labels (you've seen these at the top of your browser window); they are quite useful when they are lots of tabs in a single TabContainer.

- Multiple dialogs now can be opened too (one on top of the other).

- Finally, there was a lot of refactoring work done to fix architectural issues, particularly with ContentPane and Tree.

Anyway, check out the release notes for all the details!

... and without further ado, I proudly present to the community Dojo 1.4.0 final. This one has been a long time coming. Nine months of non-stop development, a few new committers and nearly 1000 closed issues cumulatively creates our fastest, most stable Dojo release to date.

While this release is primarily a stability and performance release, we managed to sneak quite a bit of great new functionality into the various projects. All the significant changes have been outlined in the 1.4 release notes (including migration issues), and are far too numerous to list here: ranging from simple convenience changes, like dojo.Animation callbacks now being passed the node being animated, to completely new APIs like dojo.cache providing build interning outside of of dijit._Templated. Some changes are simply exposing long standing "private" API's: dojo._Animation is public as dojo.Animation now and dojo._contentHandlers has become dojo.contentHandlers exposing Ajax transport configuration for advanced users and giving an official commitment to the preservation of those APIs.

TaskSpeed has been updated to use the new Dojo 1.4 base (dojo.js), though it only shows minor speed improvement against previous versions. While base Dojo did receive a bit of optimization, most of the gained speed isn't visible in those tests. Most notably, dojo.declare received a major overhaul -- making anything using it orders of magnitude faster. Dijit and Dojox use dojo.declare everywhere, so if you are using the Dijit Widget System or other scattered DojoX modules you should see significant improvement across the board not only in declaration of classes but in the speed of instantiating those classes. TaskSpeed also shows significant improvement for Dojo 1.4 in the Internet Explorer browser.

As always, Dojo 1.4 should be completely backwards compatible with previous versions of Dojo. If you happen upon a migration issue not covered in the release notes and not discovered during the beta/release-candidate stages of Dojo 1.4, please file a ticket. Any unspotted regressions will be fixed in 1.4.1 for immediate deployment.

We've not fully resolved the "where the docs live" question, so are providing them as offline static HTML in the downloads section for 1.4.0. They can be viewed offline by extracting the archive and viewing the files. The ever-improving live wiki docs are converted into static html available for offline viewing. We will be sorting through the final details of hosting and mirroring those static docs, as well as a shiny new website, finally evicting all this stale content and focusing the accuracy effort into one place. Now that 1.4 has been released we, the developers and maintainers of Dojo, can have some spare cycles to focus on things beyond the code quality.

2010 is coming, and will be a huge year for Dojo. We're moving onward to 1.5 for Q2 and have a host of other goodies lined up for the coming months. Thanks to everyone who participated in making Dojo 1.4.0 such a polished, stable and notable release, and to all the developers for creating such a lighting fast common utility library.

Have a great holiday season, a happy new year, and we'll see you in 2010!

... and without further ado, I proudly present to the community Dojo 1.4.0 final. This one has been a long time coming. Nine months of non-stop development, a few new committers and nearly 1000 closed issues cumulatively creates our fastest, most stable Dojo release to date.

While this release is primarily a stability and performance release, we managed to sneak quite a bit of great new functionality into the various projects. All the significant changes have been outlined in the 1.4 release notes (including migration issues), and are far too numerous to list here: ranging from simple convenience changes, like dojo.Animation callbacks now being passed the node being animated, to completely new APIs like dojo.cache providing build interning outside of of dijit._Templated. Some changes are simply exposing long standing "private" API's: dojo._Animation is public as dojo.Animation now and dojo._contentHandlers has become dojo.contentHandlers exposing Ajax transport configuration for advanced users and giving an official commitment to the preservation of those APIs.

TaskSpeed has been updated to use the new Dojo 1.4 base (dojo.js), though it only shows minor speed improvement against previous versions. While base Dojo did receive a bit of optimization, most of the gained speed isn't visible in those tests. Most notably, dojo.declare received a major overhaul -- making anything using it orders of magnitude faster. Dijit and Dojox use dojo.declare everywhere, so if you are using the Dijit Widget System or other scattered DojoX modules you should see significant improvement across the board not only in declaration of classes but in the speed of instantiating those classes. TaskSpeed also shows significant improvement for Dojo 1.4 in the Internet Explorer browser.

As always, Dojo 1.4 should be completely backwards compatible with previous versions of Dojo. If you happen upon a migration issue not covered in the release notes and not discovered during the beta/release-candidate stages of Dojo 1.4, please file a ticket. Any unspotted regressions will be fixed in 1.4.1 for immediate deployment.

We've not fully resolved the "where the docs live" question, so are providing them as offline static HTML in the downloads section for 1.4.0. They can be viewed offline by extracting the archive and viewing the files. The ever-improving live wiki docs are converted into static html available for offline viewing. We will be sorting through the final details of hosting and mirroring those static docs, as well as a shiny new website, finally evicting all this stale content and focusing the accuracy effort into one place. Now that 1.4 has been released we, the developers and maintainers of Dojo, can have some spare cycles to focus on things beyond the code quality.

2010 is coming, and will be a huge year for Dojo. We're moving onward to 1.5 for Q2 and have a host of other goodies lined up for the coming months. Thanks to everyone who participated in making Dojo 1.4.0 such a polished, stable and notable release, and to all the developers for creating such a lighting fast common utility library.

Have a great holiday season, a happy new year, and we'll see you in 2010!

... and without further ado, I proudly present to the community Dojo 1.4.0 final. This one has been a long time coming. Nine months of non-stop development, a few new committers and nearly 1000 closed issues cumulatively creates our fastest, most stable Dojo release to date.

While this release is primarily a stability and performance release, we managed to sneak quite a bit of great new functionality into the various projects. All the significant changes have been outlined in the 1.4 release notes (including migration issues), and are far too numerous to list here: ranging from simple convenience changes, like dojo.Animation callbacks now being passed the node being animated, to completely new APIs like dojo.cache providing build interning outside of of dijit._Templated. Some changes are simply exposing long standing "private" API's: dojo._Animation is public as dojo.Animation now and dojo._contentHandlers has become dojo.contentHandlers exposing Ajax transport configuration for advanced users and giving an official commitment to the preservation of those APIs.

TaskSpeed has been updated to use the new Dojo 1.4 base (dojo.js), though it only shows minor speed improvement against previous versions. While base Dojo did receive a bit of optimization, most of the gained speed isn't visible in those tests. Most notably, dojo.declare received a major overhaul -- making anything using it orders of magnitude faster. Dijit and Dojox use dojo.declare everywhere, so if you are using the Dijit Widget System or other scattered DojoX modules you should see significant improvement across the board not only in declaration of classes but in the speed of instantiating those classes. TaskSpeed also shows significant improvement for Dojo 1.4 in the Internet Explorer browser.

As always, Dojo 1.4 should be completely backwards compatible with previous versions of Dojo. If you happen upon a migration issue not covered in the release notes and not discovered during the beta/release-candidate stages of Dojo 1.4, please file a ticket. Any unspotted regressions will be fixed in 1.4.1 for immediate deployment.

We've not fully resolved the "where the docs live" question, so are providing them as offline static HTML in the downloads section for 1.4.0. They can be viewed offline by extracting the archive and viewing the files. The ever-improving live wiki docs are converted into static html available for offline viewing. We will be sorting through the final details of hosting and mirroring those static docs, as well as a shiny new website, finally evicting all this stale content and focusing the accuracy effort into one place. Now that 1.4 has been released we, the developers and maintainers of Dojo, can have some spare cycles to focus on things beyond the code quality.

2010 is coming, and will be a huge year for Dojo. We're moving onward to 1.5 for Q2 and have a host of other goodies lined up for the coming months. Thanks to everyone who participated in making Dojo 1.4.0 such a polished, stable and notable release, and to all the developers for creating such a lighting fast common utility library.

Have a great holiday season, a happy new year, and we'll see you in 2010!

... and without further ado, I proudly present to the community Dojo 1.4.0 final. This one has been a long time coming. Nine months of non-stop development, a few new committers and nearly 1000 closed issues cumulatively creates our fastest, most stable Dojo release to date.

While this release is primarily a stability and performance release, we managed to sneak quite a bit of great new functionality into the various projects. All the significant changes have been outlined in the 1.4 release notes (including migration issues), and are far too numerous to list here: ranging from simple convenience changes, like dojo.Animation callbacks now being passed the node being animated, to completely new APIs like dojo.cache providing build interning outside of of dijit._Templated. Some changes are simply exposing long standing "private" API's: dojo._Animation is public as dojo.Animation now and dojo._contentHandlers has become dojo.contentHandlers exposing Ajax transport configuration for advanced users and giving an official commitment to the preservation of those APIs.

TaskSpeed has been updated to use the new Dojo 1.4 base (dojo.js), though it only shows minor speed improvement against previous versions. While base Dojo did receive a bit of optimization, most of the gained speed isn't visible in those tests. Most notably, dojo.declare received a major overhaul -- making anything using it orders of magnitude faster. Dijit and Dojox use dojo.declare everywhere, so if you are using the Dijit Widget System or other scattered DojoX modules you should see significant improvement across the board not only in declaration of classes but in the speed of instantiating those classes. TaskSpeed also shows significant improvement for Dojo 1.4 in the Internet Explorer browser.

As always, Dojo 1.4 should be completely backwards compatible with previous versions of Dojo. If you happen upon a migration issue not covered in the release notes and not discovered during the beta/release-candidate stages of Dojo 1.4, please file a ticket. Any unspotted regressions will be fixed in 1.4.1 for immediate deployment.

We've not fully resolved the "where the docs live" question, so are providing them as offline static HTML in the downloads section for 1.4.0. They can be viewed offline by extracting the archive and viewing the files. The ever-improving live wiki docs are converted into static html available for offline viewing. We will be sorting through the final details of hosting and mirroring those static docs, as well as a shiny new website, finally evicting all this stale content and focusing the accuracy effort into one place. Now that 1.4 has been released we, the developers and maintainers of Dojo, can have some spare cycles to focus on things beyond the code quality.

2010 is coming, and will be a huge year for Dojo. We're moving onward to 1.5 for Q2 and have a host of other goodies lined up for the coming months. Thanks to everyone who participated in making Dojo 1.4.0 such a polished, stable and notable release, and to all the developers for creating such a lighting fast common utility library.

Have a great holiday season, a happy new year, and we'll see you in 2010!

Hi all,

A few days ago we put out the second (and hopefully last) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket).

If all looks good we'll make the release on Monday.

Thanks!
Bill

Hi all,

A few days ago we put out the second (and hopefully last) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket).

If all looks good we'll make the release on Monday.

Thanks!
Bill

Hi all,

A few days ago we put out the second (and hopefully last) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket).

If all looks good we'll make the release on Monday.

Thanks!
Bill

Hi all,

A few days ago we put out the second (and hopefully last) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket).

If all looks good we'll make the release on Monday.

Thanks!
Bill

Hi Dojo-ers,

Almost there on the 1.4 release... we just put out the first (and hopefully only) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket).

Thanks!
Bill

Hi Dojo-ers,

Almost there on the 1.4 release... we just put out the first (and hopefully only) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket).

Thanks!
Bill

Many thanks to Tom Mahieu who organized the next dojo.beer("Antwerpen"), tomorrow November 17th in Antwerpen during the Devoxx.
If you are near the conference, go and join this event and enjoy an evening full of JavaScript, Dojo and much more.

The event starts at 9pm, make sure you bring some of your Dojo work to you can show what you have done.
More information about the event can be found at the LinkedIn events page.

Looking forward to the very first dojo.beer() in Belgium!! Yiha

Many thanks to Tom Mahieu who organized the next dojo.beer("Antwerpen"), tomorrow November 17th in Antwerpen during the Devoxx.
If you are near the conference, go and join this event and enjoy an evening full of JavaScript, Dojo and much more.

The event starts at 9pm, make sure you bring some of your Dojo work to you can show what you have done.
More information about the event can be found at the LinkedIn events page.

Looking forward to the very first dojo.beer() in Belgium!! Yiha

Hey Dojo'ers!

I am pleased to announce I just cut the official 1.4.0 beta2 release, available for early testing. Please give it a spin, test against existing applications and report any issues back to us at bugs.dojotoolkit.org.

Barring any unforeseen regressions we should have the final release ready on schedule for a "near-Thanksgiving" release (in the past, though not intentionally, we've always released our finals on-or-around American national holidays, and 1.4 is looking to be the same).

This is BETA, so there may be a couple hiccups. Please report them immediately so that we can push a solid release candidate in a timely fashion. There are loads of new goodies (outlined in the release notes) in this release, so jump in and play with some tests! 1.4 has many subtle changes, making it the fastest, most performant Dojo to date. Hope you enjoy it!

As always, we've gone to great pains to maintain backwards compatibility with previous versions of Dojo. If we missed something, please let us know.

Happy Dojo'ing.

Hey Dojo'ers!

I am pleased to announce I just cut the official 1.4.0 beta2 release, available for early testing. Please give it a spin, test against existing applications and report any issues back to us at bugs.dojotoolkit.org.

Barring any unforeseen regressions we should have the final release ready on schedule for a "near-Thanksgiving" release (in the past, though not intentionally, we've always released our finals on-or-around American national holidays, and 1.4 is looking to be the same).

This is BETA, so there may be a couple hiccups. Please report them immediately so that we can push a solid release candidate in a timely fashion. There are loads of new goodies (outlined in the release notes) in this release, so jump in and play with some tests! 1.4 has many subtle changes, making it the fastest, most performant Dojo to date. Hope you enjoy it!

As always, we've gone to great pains to maintain backwards compatibility with previous versions of Dojo. If we missed something, please let us know.

Happy Dojo'ing.

Hey Dojo'ers!

I am pleased to announce I just cut the official 1.4.0 beta2 release, available for early testing. Please give it a spin, test against existing applications and report any issues back to us at bugs.dojotoolkit.org.

Barring any unforeseen regressions we should have the final release ready on schedule for a "near-Thanksgiving" release (in the past, though not intentionally, we've always released our finals on-or-around American national holidays, and 1.4 is looking to be the same).

This is BETA, so there may be a couple hiccups. Please report them immediately so that we can push a solid release candidate in a timely fashion. There are loads of new goodies (outlined in the release notes) in this release, so jump in and play with some tests! 1.4 has many subtle changes, making it the fastest, most performant Dojo to date. Hope you enjoy it!

As always, we've gone to great pains to maintain backwards compatibility with previous versions of Dojo. If we missed something, please let us know.

Happy Dojo'ing.