Dojo, a popular Ajax web toolkit that powers many of your favorite sites, has finally hit the 1.0 milestone. Developers can grab the new, three years in the making, release from the Dojo servers.
The final release of v1.0 features a number of enhancements that should make developers happy including what the Dojo team calls, “The Grid.” The Grid is Dojo’s means of handling large sets of data — complex tables and the like — and version 1.0 brings support for virtual scrolling as well as built-in sorting and column resizing.
If you’re not a developer that may not mean much to you, but you might see the benefits even as a user as widgets pop-up with better tables and faster dynamic, in-place sorting.
Other additions to Dojo 1.0 include better international language support, a new widget theme, Django templating for widgets (for those using the popular Python framework) and more.
Also of note, the Dojo team has recently announced a new way to use Dojo. Dojo 1.0 is now available through AOL’s Content Delivery Network, which means there’s no need to install Dojo on your own server anymore. Just put one script tag linking to the CDN scripts and all of Dojo 1.0 will be available.
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