Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library designed to ease the rapid development of cross platform, JavaScript/Ajax based applications and web sites.
It proves all the necessary building blocks to develop desktop-style Rich Internet Applications.
The Dojo Foundation is sponsored by IBM, Sun Microsystems, JotSpot, OpenLasio and others.
Features include:
- Refactored Microkernel.
- Feature detection.
- Standard module format and loader.
- DOM wrapped.
- XMLHttpRequest data retrieval.
- JSON data retrieval.
- Server push data retrieval.
- Drag and drop.
- Simple visual effects.
- Animation / advanced visual effects.
- Event handling.
- Back button support / history management (with plugin).
- Input form widgets & validation.
- Grid.
- Hierarchical Tree.
- Rich text editor.
- Autocompletion tools.
- HTML generation tools.
- Widgets themeable / skinnable:
- Menus, tabs, and tooltips.
- Sortable tables.
- Dynamic charts.
- 2D vector drawings.
- Animated effects—fades, wipes and slides—facilities for custom animation effects.
- Tree widgets that support drag-and-drop.
- Various forms and routines for validating form input.
- Calendar-based date selector, time selector, and clock.
- Core widgets.
- Maps (geographical openlayer-based maps & dashboard vector-based maps)
- Gauges (horizontal, vertical, circular).
- Also for 3D.
- GUI resizable panels and modal dialogs.
- GUI page layout.
- Canvas support.
- Mobile/tablet support.
- Language Helpers.
- Accessibility / graceful degradation.
- Asynchronous communication.
- ARIA compliant.
- Developer tools, Visual design.
- Packaging system to facilitate modular development of functionality in individual packages and sub-packages.
- Cross-browser 2d vector graphics.
- Charting and Dashboard.
- Ajax I/O.
- Asynchronous Loading.
- Local, client-side storage abstraction named Dojo Storage.
- Support for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
Website: dojotoolkit.org
Support: Blog
Developer: The Dojo Foundation
License: BSD License or Academic Free License 2.1
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