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• 07.08.07
  Creating Offline Web Applications with Dojo Offline Tutorial Open Source, Web Development, Web Framework | (0)

  Brad Neuberg from Sitepen wrote an extensive tutorial about Creating Offline Web Applications with Dojo Offline. What is Dojo Offline? Dojo Offline is an open-source toolkit that makes it easy to create sophisticated, offline web applications. It sits on top of Google Gears, a plugin from Google that helps extend web browsers with new functionality. Dojo Offline makes working with Google Gears easier; extends it with important functionality; creates a higher-level API than Google Gears provides; and exposes developer productivity features. In particular, Dojo Offline provides the following functionality: An offline widget that you can easily embed in your web page with just ...

  Tagged: Dojo, Gears, Google, Offline
  
• 05.31.07
  More on offline web applications - Google Gears Open Source, Web Development, Web Framework | (1)

  Google announced Google Gears at Google Developer Day 2007. Google Gears is an open source browser plugin that will enable developers to create offline web applications using JavaScript APIs. As a developer, you'll be able to make an application with the assurance that it will work offline and online across browsers. Google Reader is the first online application to offer "Gears-enabled offline capabilities". After you load the Gears plugin you get a new icon at the top of your Reader window which enables offline capabilities of Google Reader. The great news about Google Gears is that Dojo and Google are working together; Dojo ...

  Tagged: Dojo, Gears, Google, Offline, Web 2.0
  
• 04.26.07
  Offline web applications with Dojo Offline Toolkit Open Source, Web Development, Web Framework | (1)

  Although I'm not a big fan of the Dojo Toolkit, I'm impressed with the the Dojo Offline Toolkit. I'm confident that this will greatly improve the way some actual web applications work. What is the Dojo Offline Toolkit? Dojo Offline is a free, open source toolkit that makes it easy for web applications to work offline. It consists of two pieces: a JavaScript library bundled with your web page and a small (~300K) cross-platform, cross-browser download that helps to cache your web application's user-interface for use offline. How Dojo Offline Works? Dojo Offline uses a very small, standard web proxy that runs locally. Web proxies ...

  Tagged: Dojo, Offline, Web 2.0
  

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