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[...]... usually includes the title, author, publisher, and ISBN For example: Dojo: The Definitive Guide, by Matthew A Russell Copyright 2008 Matthew A Russell, 97 8-0 -5 9 6-5 164 8-2 .” Preface | xxix If you feel your use of code examples falls outside fair use or the permission given above, feel free to contact us at permissions@oreilly.com Safari® Books Online When you see a Safari® Books Online icon on the cover of... help change the tone of open source development to encourage collegial, civil discourse A project dedicated to building with the community and not to treat users as “them.” “They” are “us” and this book makes plain the open philosophy under which the toolkit was built, and by which we encourage all those reading it to help us evolve it for the future By the time I met Matthew Russell face-to-face, this... better experiences on top of the toolkit xiii These kinds of accomplishments aren’t the work of one person, or even a small team The number of people who have contributed to Dojo s evolution, believed in the project, and worked together to deliver a better Web are too numerous to mention We copied what we thought were the best bits of the structures of other projects, and the result has been a level... web page on the fly, and in doing so, makes it possible to provide a layer of insulation between the developer and the bare metal of the web browsers—even all of them at the same time This book is about Dojo, a JavaScript toolkit that provides that layer of insulation between you and the hard knocks of browser inconsistencies by leveraging JavaScript and other web technologies for all that they’re worth—not... commoditized, the Dojo community really stands out as different The organizations and individuals who make up the team of committers (not to mention the thousands of individual developers out there building real web sites and applications) all give Dojo a particular character and grounding for success Liberal (and clean) licensing Dojo is open source software that is liberally licensed under the terms of either... features for operations like animations and drag-and-drop; while they are incredibly useful, they just aren’t as common to all use cases as the machinery in Base One caveat about Part I of this book is that it defers a full-blown discussion of the parser until Chapter 11, when Dijit is introduced, because the most common use case of the parser is for parsing widgets The parser is briefly mentioned in a Chapter... drag-and-drop Part I includes the following chapters: Chapter 1, Toolkit Overview Provides a quick introduction to the toolkit including topics such as Dojo s architecture, how to get and install Dojo, how to get Dojo into a web page, and some sections that provide some examples so that you can see Dojo in action * As we’ll be discussing more in subsequent chapters, “across the wire” refers to the. .. All of us involved with Dojo have matured along with the Web, and with the release of Dojo 1.0 and this book, it’s safe to say that Dojo has fully arrived The roadmap documents we started so long ago now have all of the boxes checked, sites that serve billions of page views a month lean on Dojo for their entire user experience, and large teams of designers and developers work together to create better... further away than Base for production settings The kinds of features you’ll find in Core include animation machinery (dojo. fx), drag-and-drop facilities (dojo. dnd), a data management layer (dojo. data), cookie handling (dojo. cookie), and more Familiarity with the arsenal of tools in Base and Core is absolutely essential to becoming a productive Dojo developer, and the chances are good that this machinery... title to all contributions—thereby protecting all users of the toolkit from intellectual licensing conundrums The benefit of clean licensing is markedly not the case with several other popular JavaScript toolkits (that shall be left unnamed) Depth and breadth While some toolkits tackle specific pieces of a problem space, Dojo provides an end-to-end solution for development in the browser Everything from . h1" alt="" Dojo The Definitive Guide Other resources from O’Reilly Related titles Adding Ajax Ajax: The Definitive Guide CSS Cookbook ™ CSS: The Definitive Guide Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference JavaScript:. time-critical questions in a matter of seconds. Read the books on your Bookshelf from cover to cover or sim- ply flip to the page you need. Try it today for free. Dojo The Definitive Guide Matthew. Edition. Nutshell Handbook, the Nutshell Handbook logo, and the O’Reilly logo are registered trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Dojo: The Definitive Guide, the image of a lion-tailed monkey, and related