Today SitePen, Inc. announced the release of a co-sponsored "demo" utilizing Adobe's AIR runtime and The Dojo Toolkit affectionately named "The Dojo Toolbox". Don't let the term "demo" fool you though, this thing is a fully functioning application providing a pluggable API built around the question "what can be done offline to better Dojo?" ...

Working on the drag and drop form editor, I'm pulling in lots of modules: almost
everything in dijit.form, dojo.dnd (of course), and dijit.lang.functional &
dijit.lang.aspect because they're fun. Each module I require then pulls in
more files that it needs, so I was up to 131 web requests to load a single
page. The latency is acceptable on localhost, but it's absolutely terrible over
the network.

A number of you have noticed that at times things have been a little wonky with dojotoolkit.org...we're in the process of expanding (and working out kinks with) our server infrastructure. Please be patient; if you run across the "white screen of death", you should be able to try the same link again within a minute. Why? Because we're enabling the ability for you to add comments with the new API doc tool! Go check it out!

At SitePen, we've just added a new Dojo QuickStart Guide. This guide was developed by the SitePen support team.

Scott recently created a diagram outlining the various pieces currently in the grid (click the title to see the diagram)...

We're working on assembling a great collection of Dojo demos and tutorials. While we get that work completed, I've added an initial collection of current and useful Dojo demos and tutorials to help you get started with Dojo.

Navigating Dojo requires a good map, and we work hard to continually improve ours. Just dig our latest enhancements...

A new version of the Dojo Book is currently in progress and should be completed by September 4, 2007. Currently, you can browse through the book in the documentation section of the site by following the Dojo Book, 0.9 link.

Alternatively, you can view a print-friendly view of the entire book.

I've pushed out a small, new version of Dojo Offline. Release notes:

* An optional new feature has been added to speed up the sync process. Currently, we always refresh the list of offline files during syncing; this can be quite slow if you have alot of files, however, and I have added a way to version your offline files. This means that we only refresh offline files when the version changes, which can speed up syncing considerably. More details here.

Dojo is proud to announce a new beta release of Dojo Offline. This release has a huge amount of exciting new functionality, including a full port to Google Gears, a port from Dojo 0.4 to 0.9, and more. Read more below.