Comments on: Dojo Toolkit Now Works Offline

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:12:09 +0000

This line sounded to me like you were ruling it out: “While Apollo is proprietary, SlingShot works just for Rails. Only Dekoh and Dojo are left as viable options for the general developer community.” If you’re delivering over the web to browsers other than Firefox 2, then wouldn’t you be using such “proprietary” technology anyway…?

tx, jd/adobe

By: Bilal Hameed

Bilal Hameed — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:55:27 +0000

John What makes you think I am against Apollo. Mentioning the fact that its proprietary is an apposition ? Please correct me if I am wrong but is it really not proprietary?

By: Jay Jenkins

Jay Jenkins — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:16:31 +0000

jd,

Dojo can use more than Flash to store large objects.

“Right now the dojo.storage system includes three storage providers, a Flash Storage Provider that uses a hidden Flash applet; a WHAT WG Storage Provider that uses native client-side storage abilities in Firefox 2; and a File Storage Provider that uses the native file system if a web app is loaded from the local file system. Creating other kinds of storage providers is a great way for the community to contribute.”

jj/unnamed consulting

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:13:54 +0000

uhm, I’m not sure of the opposition to Adobe’s Apollo project here, considering that its goal is to bring Ajax or Flash webapps to the desktop, and considering exactly how Dojo manages to store larger-than-cookiesized datasets on the audience’s different machines….

(Architectural support, such as Adobe Flash Player, helps provide this storage ability in the browsers, but it’s still a lot of work to implement well… only you know what type of application states your project needs to represent, and how people will want to work with it whether connected or no. The ability to store large objects rather than small tokens is necessary, yet not sufficient, for a good “occasionally connected” experience.)

jd/adobe