Need a short "why use dojo" article.

[Praneet Kandula <dojo_trac@…>]

I'm currently trying to convince the RoundCube? webmail project (​http://www.roundcube.net) to use the dojo toolkit instead of creating it's own. It's tough for me to explain all the advantages to the project's developers because I don't know enough about dojo. I believe that to gain wide acceptance and usage (which I understand is dojo's aim), you need a short article that explains what the benefits to using dojo are as opposed to developing your own ajax toolkit, or using another one.

If you guys don't have time to do this, you can just put the main points down in bullet form, and I can try to massage those into an article, but I really think a short article like this can go a long ways toward getting people to use dojo rather than reinventing the wheel.

[david]

A good place to start would be The Dojo Way, though we still need a better why/FAQ.

[vinod.k.menon@…]

We are in process of developing a AJAX framework & we are evaluating various toolkits . Anybody with inputs on how dojo compares with other toolkits including commerically available products such as backbase.

Thx, -Vinod

[alex]

I want this fixed, but I'm not sure that coupling it to a release makes sense. I'm pulling it off of 0.3.1 and bumping it's priority up.

[wayland]

I think it needs to address as separate concerns:

• Why use dojo compared to developing your own
• Why use dojo compared to other toolkits

[dylan]

something needs to be done on this... taking ownership and blocking 0.4 on it.

[bill]

FYI, in theory the chapter ​http://manual.dojotoolkit.org/WikiHome/DojoDotBook/BookHowDojoHelps addresses this although I think it could use some work. I read "The Dojo Way" link above but it's too philosophical for me.

There's also the section on widgets ​http://manual.dojotoolkit.org/WikiHome/DojoDotBook/BookWhyWidgets and ​http://manual.dojotoolkit.org/WikiHome/DojoDotBook/Book39

But in the end, all those sections above could use a lot of work.

[alex]

added at http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/introduction/why-dojo. Marking fixed.