Building Web Applications

Using JavaScript, MochiKit and Dojo

Part IV - Case Studies

Anant Narayanan

Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur

Pure JavaScript

S5: HTML Presentation

• This presentation was made in S5!
• Great example of how you can use JavaScript to interact with user
• S5 is very useful for online presentations
• Completely standards Compliant

MochiKit

Integrated into TurboGears

PlotKit: Charting Library

• Uses MochiKit's language facilities
• Supports SVG creation
• Clean and Fast, thanks to MochiKit

Dojo

YouOS: The web operating system!

• MIT Product: Very Interesting - MUST SEE!
• Complete OS environment
• Dojo's extensibility allows you to write applications for YouOS!
• Applications like Browser, Notes and Terminal already available

MochiKit And Dojo

Beacon: The GuideXML editor

• Uses MochiKit for language and AJAX
• Uses Dojo to create layout and widgets
• MochiKit dynamically creates Dojo widgets using swapDOM
• Will drive development of Dojo's inlineEditBox and Editor2
• Example of where web applications can replace traditional apps

Think about your next Killer App!