The Problem

Recently, a discussion opened up on the Dojo Toolkit Mailing List about the lack of a strong marketing and a small community compared jQuery. Torrey Rice was kind enough to elaborate and hit the nail square on the head when he said:

Showing off the hardcore stuff that’s really cool to us (like data stores and charting) is fine but we have to understand that the vast majority of people don’t care about that stuff.. they want to quickly add effects and do dom manipulation.

I see plenty of blogs posting how to do wowie things with jQuery such as 20 Cool Tricks for jQuery but when I started learning Dojo there weren’t many blogs that touched on the fancy effects of JavaScript. Dojo documentation has improved greatly in the six months I’ve been using it but it would have been a great help to have a list of blog posts I could copy & paste from. Having said that – this is my attempt to get to the ball rolling. Enjoy!

Quick & Easy Dojo Effects

1. Creating a Twitter-esque login box
2. Creating fancy drop-down menus with HTML, CSS, and Dojo.
3. Creating a fadeOut loader with Dojo.