Today, while reading the most recent posts on Ajaxian, I found the announcement of the Dojo 1.3 release. Read the announcement and learn about the plugd plugin.

I will be using some time to update our project, which by the way will be going into the first testphase in 13 days, to the newest version of Dojo Toolkit today.

The API’s found in plugd are loosely based on “my favorite bits of jQuery” … this is not meant to be a ‘compatibility shim’ of any kind, it is simply the addition of functions and helpers to Dojo Base. Added magic.

plugd adds several convenience functions, all located in the dojo namespace. For instance, by loading base.js into a page, the following new Dojo API’s are made available:

* dojo.show(), dojo.hide(), dojo.toggle()
* dojo.conflict()
* dojo.wrap()
* dojo.create()

And the following methods are added to dojo.NodeList (what you get back from calling dojo.query() (or $() after running dojo.conflict()):

* .wrap()
* .show(), .hide(), .toggle()
* .val()
* .append()
* .appendTo()
* .create()
* .animate()
* .destroy()
* .hover()
* .end() (and stash() for private use)