A lot has been going on in Dojo-land, and we're finally ready to push out the release. I have tentatively named this the 'Sliced Bread' release, as over the last six months each new item has truly felt like "the best thing since sliced bread". This iteration of the Dojo Toolkit has a very large delta, countless levels of innovation, cleverness, polish, and usefulness, as well as several internal changes regarding the overall project.

We're rolling back the rollback. I'll tell the whole story here, but the history won't matter to most of you. In short, dojox.editor is going back to what it was when it was created a few months ago - a place for extensions to the dijit.Editor. For Dojo 1.2, it will include a few experimental plugins, courtesy of Dustin and Mike.

• dojox.editor.plugins.TablePlugins - table creation and editing, missing since 0.4, is back!
• dojox.editor.plugins.UploadImage - leverages dojox.form.FileUploader and Flash to upload files

The Ajax Experience is kicking off in less than a week.

Everyone that has responded to the invitation for DDD Boston should receive an email in the next day or two with complete details for the event, dinners, etc.

I have also created a pdf, the Dojo-annotated Ajax Experience schedule, for anyone that is interested in knowing which talks are most likely to be interesting to Dojo developers.

Leading up to the Ajax Experience, there is an

If you haven't already noticed, we're having some issues with http://api.dojotoolkit.org - we're working to correct the issue as we speak, but is proving to be difficult. We have taken the API site offline for the meantime, and apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing you.

If you are able to run AIR, the 1.1.1 docs are available in off-line format via the SitePen Dojo Toolbox application. You can use this if you need immediate API docs while we work to fix this issue.

http://sitepen.com/labs/toolbox

Earlier this month, we released beta1 of the much anticipated Dojo Toolkit 1.2 ... We released 1.1 in March of this year and the critical-fix branch 1.1.1 in May, making the 1.2 release the longest interval between releases to date. The wait was/is worth it, the visual polish in Dijit layout alone will please most users.

Oh, but it isn't truly released yet - one more round of testing to go! Today, we cut the first candidate for Dojo 1.2:

http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.2.0rc1/

We need you!

Now that we're on the verge of releasing Dojo 1.2, it seems like a strange time to talk about the next release,
but I want to anyway :-)... I won't be at this year's DDD so I want to get people's feedback virtually about future Dijit development...

Coming in the Dojo 1.2 release—the ability to use custom typography!

The Summer of Code is over; where did the time go?

Demo

The final demo is available at http://jbalogh.dojotoolkit.org/dojo-svn/release/dojo/soc/test.html

This morning I had the pleasure of running our `build_release` script for the first time, and am proud to announce the availability of the first cut of the much-anticipated 1.2.0 release. Secretly, I tried to do it on a holiday (yesterday), but had to nurse the script a little due to internal ops changes regarding svn locations.

So without further ado, I give you:

Dojo 1.2.0 beta1

Dojo 1.2 will sport a nice API standardization for widgets. Widget.attr() is now the standard interface for setting/getting all widget attributes. For example:

// set title
myTitlePane.attr('title', 'hello world');

// find out if button is disabled
var dis = myButton.attr('disabled');

// set to the current date
myDateTextBox.attr('value', new Date());

It also supports a hash API like dojo.attr(), for setting multiple attributes:

myInput.attr({ tabIndex: 3, disabled: true, value: 'hi'});