Several engineers(*) at AOL had a very interesting meeting with the Dojo guys last week. One of the results is the announcement that AOL is hosting the Dojo toolkit on our content distribution network. The reason this is great is because the major barrier to adoption of DHTML/Ajax/etc UIs is, honestly, the download times for the Javascript code; you only pay this once but it's a major concern. The CDN helps enormously with this since it does automatic compression, caching, intelligent routing, proper browser bug workarounds, etc. If enough people adopt this, it would be a win for everyone (only the first application to require a library module pays anything, the rest get it for 'free').
I hope we'll be able to do some more interesting things and help contribute to Dojo as well.
(*) OK, technically I'm a manager, but they let me wear the engineer hat sometimes.
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