One of the most important parts of creating an effective and intuitive user interface on touch-enabled smartphones has nothing to do with visual appearance—instead, it has to do with creating an interface that properly responds to user input based on touch. For Web applications, this means replacing mouse events with touch events.

dojo/dnd is one of Dojo’s core APIs and is designed to manage the process of dragging and dropping items between two or more containers. It offers advanced features like multiple selections, item acceptance filtering on drop targets, and other behavioral tweaks.

SitePen is so dedicated to providing you with the highest quality Dojo Toolkit education in the industry that we will be in 11 states, providing 22 Dojo Workshops throughout 2012.  Whether you want to learn the basics of Dojo or sharpen your Dojo skills, we have a workshop just for you.

SitePen’s Dylan Schiemann delivered the last of his three Rich Web Experience 2011 presentations yesterday, Never Bet Against the Open Web. Dylan had this to say about his time at #RWX2011: The level of interest in AMD, object stores, and mobile is impressive.

SitePen’s Dylan Schiemann delivered a powerful keynote, Real Time, Real Fast, during the opening ceremony of Rich Web Experience 2011 last night in Fort Lauderdale, FL.  His presentation covered the evolution of web app development through modern real time technologies, cost and benefits of different transports, provided a deep dive into WebSocket, and advocated for using a scalable architecture with constant time and space event distribution.  In case you missed it, you can view his presentation here.  (We think it was pretty awesome.) Today, Dylan will present Dojo 2.0: Modular, Mobile, and Reinventing Web App Development covering the reinvention of the Dojo Toolkit, one of the original Ajax toolkits, showing off the wide variety of features and approaches currently available in Dojo and give a sneak peak of the forthcoming Dojo 2.0 release.  This is one presentation you won’t want to miss! For those of you not attending Rich Web Experience 2011, or if you were so amazed that you want to see his presentations again, we will be making all of Dylan’s Rich Web Experience 2011 presentations available online shortly after the conference.  To be one of the first to know when they are available, get social with SitePen.   Follow us on SlideShare | Twitter | Google+.. .

SitePen’s CEO, and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan Schiemann will be kicking off Rich Web Experience 2011 with an engaging Real Time, Real Fast keynote address.  His talk will cover WebSocket, one of the hottest new APIs in HTML5, which enables true duplex communication without the overhead, complexity, and extraneous latency of HTTP-based solutions.  His keynote will also cover the use of streaming abstractions to minimize buffering, and will consider the performance implications of topic-based publish-subscribe distribution versus filtering techniques. On Wednesday, November 30, Dylan will present Dojo 2.0: Modular, Mobile, and Reinventing Web App Development.  This presentation will cover the reinvention of the Dojo Toolkit, one of the original Ajax toolkits.  Through a series of improvements in modularity, performance, API improvements, adjustments for HTML5 and mobile platforms, the Dojo Toolkit will continue to provide a stellar platform for building web apps.  Dylan will show off the wide variety of features and approaches currently available in Dojo, and give a sneak peak of the forthcoming Dojo 2.0 release.

SitePen is excited to announce that Dojo Toolkit has won 1st Runner Up in the 2011 Packt Open Source Award for Open Source JavaScript Libraries!  Congratulations to all of our competitors- jQuery, RaphaelJS, Sencha (ExtJS), and YUI Library.  It was an honor to compete with this elite group of libraries.  Thank you to everyone who voted for Dojo Toolkit .  And most importantly, thank you to everyone who continues to believe in the greatness of Dojo. About the Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award Dojo Toolkit competed in the category is reserved for JavaScript libraries, libraries of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications or smoother server-side JavaScript functionalities.  Voting took place between September 19 and October 31, 2011..

Notice: This post is now several years old and covers early versions of dgrid prior to 1.x. We recommend starting with the dgrid tutorials to leverage dgrid 1.x.

Featured as one of three sessions to see on Monday’s web track at the BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco this week, SitePen’s CEO Dylan Schiemann presented Make Beautiful Apps Faster Using the Dojo Mobile Toolkit.  His session talked about creating superior experiences using standard open web technologies and presented an overview of the Dojo Toolkit, HTML5 and mobile-specific features and new Dojo APIs that fundamentally change web application development for the better.