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Toolkits and Gaps

Dylan Schiemann (@dylans)SitePen, Inc.HTML5 Code Camp, October, 2010

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Toolkit Goals

Fill gap, add features and enhancements

Experiment

Create clean APIs

Beyond HTML5

Better widgets, charts, higher level APIs

Allowed disagreement, on top of standards

Opportunities, constraints, and conflict:

Best toolkits make parts of themselves irrelevant over time

vapor.js

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Browsers and Recommendations

Are flawed

Have inconsistencies

Make invention possible, but trail behind

Which is why we have and need good toolkits

Iterate faster

Different styles and taste

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Dojo

Retrofitting itself for HTML5 support

Removing obsolete features as appropriate

Keeping compatibility and API consistency

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Dojo Toolkit: Project Goals

Fill the Browser Gaps

Fast & EfficientModular, 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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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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Innovation

Standards

Dirty Hacks

Inspired by Andy Hume

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CSS

<font>

<div>

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dojo.query

getElementsByTagName

querySelectorAll

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Dojo 0.4

Dojo 0.1

netWindows

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Dojo 1.4

Dojo 1.0

Dojo 0.4

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Dojo 2.0

Dojo 1.5 & 1.6HTML5

Dojo 1.4

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How?

Feature Detection

data attributes

sockets

GFX

Storage

Dijit

Mobile

...

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3 Dojo Foundation Mobile Projects

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Most Experimental & Lean

http://winktoolkit.org/

WINK ToolkitCompletely 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

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Most Complete

http://github.com/uxebu/embedjs/

EmbedJSDojo APIs, stripped down for mobile and embedded

Started by Uxebu

Target each platform with its native look & feel

TouchScroll, geolocation, etc.

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Most Stable for Dojo users

DojoX MobileStarted 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

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Q&A / Thanks

SitePen sitepen.com

Dojo Toolkit dojotoolkit.org

Dojo Foundation dojofoundation.org

Dijit dojotoolkit.org

Dojo Campus dojocampus.org

Twitter: @dylans @dojo @sitepen @cometdaily #dojo

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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dylans/

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