Dojo keeping its Mojo ...

A growing community of developers continues to enhance and support a very useful JavaScript toolkit, called Dojo. This toolkit handles cumbersome tasks for eye-popping web applications using DOM manipulation, Ajax, animations and pesky event normalizations needed to get applications to behave correctly in multiple browsers. While the Document Object Model (DOM) dates back to Netscape, web browsers didn't need DOM to render HTML. This all changed with Web 2.0 UIs where JavaScript needs to dynamically modify or inspect what's coming across on the web page. There are even extensions for supporting design patterns, wrappings and persistent storage for Adobe Air, a Rich Internet Application framework.  The Dojo Zoom application here only has 50 lines of source code. It is all self-contained and of course, no Postbacks! With the help of a couple of community members, what started as a simple drag and drop example grew into a fully featured application showing off Dojo's power. As you move the overlay box, you can resize and create a zoom in the right panel. Very cool.