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Dojo Wins Mobile Slickspeed Shootout

May 14, 2009 – 12:26 pm

Stefan K. has posted a fascinating run-down of mobile browser performance with regards to JavaScript toolkits. No big shock, but Dojo once again brings home the bacon. I’d love to see these tests re-run with TaskSpeed instead of SlickSpeed, but when you’re doing progressive enhancement it turns out that selector engine performance really matters. Dojo [...]

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Acme: Sometimes Being Generic Is A Win

May 6, 2009 – 12:27 pm

Shane O’Sullivan, recently minted as as Dojo committer, has updated his GreaseMonkey script for skipping welcome screens to use Acme instead of Sizzle. Short story: fewer browser crashes and better performance. If you’re not using Dojo, now might be a good time to ask why your library isn’t using Acme too.

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Dojo 1.3b3 Is Out

March 7, 2009 – 6:29 pm

New Dojo hotness is about to land, and you can get your very own sneak-peek by grabbing one of the beta builds, or if you’re a DOM-and-progressive-enhancement-only kinda person, you can grab only dojo.js. So why should you be switching to Dojo or upgrading to 1.3? You can dig through the nearly 500 fixed bugs [...]

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