How Dojo is being retrofitted to work better with mobile.

1. Dojo Mobile
Dylan Schiemann (@dylans)
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4. Dojo Toolkit: Project Goals
Fill the Browser Gaps
Fast & Efficient
Modular, Small Base, Extensible
Professional & Sophisticated
Powerful
Developer productivity and tools
Push the limits (vector graphics, offline, html5, etc.)
Open, free, & liberally licensed
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5. Toolkit Features
Packages, Builds, Timing
DOM Manipulation/Querying/Behavior
Events (DOM, function to function, pubsub)
Ajax (XHR, iframe, x-domain, form submits, polling, long-polling, and more) and
Effects
DnD & a11y/i18n
Dijit (widget system, Layout, Form, WYSIWYG editor, Tree, Grid, many more)
Vector Graphics (gfx, charting, drawing, SVG/Canvas/VML/Flash/Silverlight/SVGWeb)
Data/JSON/REST/RPC
Offline, Local Storage (Gears, HTML5, Flash, Cookies, etc.)
Comet, XMPP, WebSocket
Developer Utilities (build, test, documentation)
Mobile
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6. Standards
Dirty Hacks Innovation
Inspired by Andy Hume
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7. <font>
<div> CSS
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8. getElementsByTagName
querySelectorAll dojo.query
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9. Dojo 0.1
netWindows Dojo 0.4
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10. Dojo 1.0
Dojo 0.4 Dojo 1.4
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11. Dojo 1.5 & 1.6
HTML5
Dojo 1.4 Dojo 2.0
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12. Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
API Stability
Remove cruft
Add features
Experiment off the main line
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13. 3 Dojo Foundation
Mobile Projects
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14. WINK Toolkit
Completely separate code
base
Innovative UI elements (3D
useful for tight screen
space
Started by Orange Labs
iPhone and Android apps,
consistent look and feel,
other platforms coming
Most Experimental & Lean
http://winktoolkit.org/
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15. EmbedJS
Dojo APIs, stripped down
for mobile and embedded
Started by Uxebu
Target each platform with
its native look & feel
TouchScroll, geolocation,
etc.
Most Complete
http://github.com/uxebu/embedjs/
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16. DojoX Mobile
Started in Dojo 1.5
Fix things in Dojo that
break for mobile, API stable
Merge features from
EmbedJS, WINK Toolkit
Feature Detection
Support for many HTML5
features and beyond
Most Stable for Dojo users
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18. Contributors
Uxebu
Orange Labs
IBM
Research in Motion
SitePen
Google Summer of Code
Many individuals
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