Notice: We recommend reading our newer post on RQL. A new data querying tool for has been added to Dojo 1.2.

NOTE: This post is out of date.Read our updated version of this post for more up to date information! Everyone who owns an iPhone (or who has been holding out for an iPhone 3G) is bound to be excited about a lot of the new things the device can finally do, particularly the introduction of third-party applications. But those of us in the web development community have been itching for something further still: good web applications on the iPhone.

In the middle of May, we were given a mission: create a speedy, offline API documentation viewer and a graphical Dojo build tool. Here we are at the beginning of July, and the result is the Dojo Toolbox 1.0.

Palo Alto, CA – July 8, 2008 – SitePen Inc. today announced the launch of the Dojo Toolbox, a productivity application to help web and Ajax developers with the Dojo Toolkit.

I was doing some research on script loading speed tests. Each script load required the page to be refreshed, making it difficult to log the time to Firebug and get an average.

SMS is a great way to push small amounts of text to mobile users. But what happens when your application needs to send more than 140 characters of information? Most modern phones, including Apple’s iPhone, support the ability to launch the mobile web browser using the URL embedded in the SMS message.

Non-trivial data often has structures that cannot be well-defined with normal linear, acyclic data descriptions. Data that consists of cycles, many-to-one relationships, and non-local references often requires custom strategies for serialization and transfer of the data over JSON.

NOTE: This post is very out of date. For more up to date information about RESTful JSON in Dojo applications there are a number of more recent tutorials are available, such as the Dojo Store introduction, as well as tutorials demonstrating store-driven grids and trees, among others.

NOTE: This post contains information pertaining to an older version of Dojo.Read the updated version now! Most anyone who’s looked at the feature list knows that one of Dojo’s core features is a drag and drop framework. What’s not immediately obvious is that Dojo actually has two drag and drop APIs.