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Friday, September 19th, 2008

Dojo Toolkit 1.2 RC1 is Out!

Category: Dojo

<p>The Dojo team has put out the much anticipated release candidate for the Dojo Toolkit 1.2. Lots of work has gone into this with new updates and features galore added to this release:

  • 1000+ changes, improvements, and bug fixes since the 1.1.1 release
  • Huge improvements to Dijit include .attr() for getting and setting all attributes, and performance and polish improvements across all widgets
  • The new and greatly improved Dojo Grid, with full dojo.data integration
  • Enhancements to charting including tooltips, animations, events, legends, and several new chart types
  • doh.robot, providing unit testing integration with Selenium and Windmill
  • New features including but not limited to:
    • multi-file uploader
    • refined image widgets (Lightbox, Slideshow, etc.)
    • a fast XML parser
    • many new data stores
    • a faster way to include Google analytics
    • security improvements including windowName and dojox.secure
    • JSON (Path, Query, Referencing, and Schema)

This is only a small subset of the updates included and to really get an idea of the breadth of work gone into this release you need to check out Dojo Toolkit v1.2rc1 Release Notes.

Sitepen founder and Dojo team member Dylan Schiemann had this to say about the new release:

The Dojo Community and Contributors have worked tirelessly for the past 6 months, packing an incredible amount of improvements, performance fixes, enhancements, documentation, and more into this release. It’s our most polished, complete, fast, well-documented release ever. I’m fortunate to get to work with such a great community, and I applaud the outstanding effort that has gone into making Dojo extraordinary.

Download Dojo Toolkit v1.2rc1

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Posted by Rey Bango at 10:19 am
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What widgets does dojo offer out of the box? I only found the grid widget, but it look pretty bad compared to what EXT JS has to offer.

Comment by Jeria — September 19, 2008

Try the Dojo Campus: http://dojocampus.org/explorer/#Dijit

Comment by jratcliff — September 19, 2008

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