Friday, March 28. 2008

Dojo 1.1.0 Released

Dojo announced today the availability of 1.1.0.

I've been toying with Dojo off-and-on for almost a year now. It's the most framework-y of the various JS toolkits I've tried, and I particularly appreciate its modularity. (That said, it can lead to a lot of HTTP requests to your site if you don't create a targetted bundle with the modules you need.)

The 1.1.0 release has me pretty excited, as it finally is doing something most other JS frameworks have been doing for some time: its XHR requests now send the "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" header, which allows it to conform to the isXmlHttpRequest() method in Zend Framework's request object. This makes it much easier to provide a standard mechanism in your server-side code for detecting AJAX requests, allowing context switching to be automated.

Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in PHP at 15:59 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
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Hi!
Have you tried mootools? It is object oriented, modular, and compact. In my personal opinion, it is the best js framework out there.
#1 Ernesto on 2008-05-06 15:04 (Reply)
I've tried a variety of JS libraries. Honestly, I'm not going to say which, if any, I prefer; I think it's a matter of choosing the one that suits your project and your coding style. Each has its strengths and areas where they excel over the others; I don't think any one of them is "best."

This post was merely because Dojo is one library I've tried, and which I've had some difficulty using in ZF due to the lack of the X-Requested-With header. :-)
#1.1 Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Link) on 2008-05-06 15:11 (Reply)

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