It means that nobody was willing to support the Dojo plugin, for a variety of reasons (mostly the very old version of Dojo it used).
While the new jQuery plugin will be supported, I still believe that for all but the simplest usecases it's better to write JavaScript as JavaScript, and not wrap it up in tag libraries.
David Newton wrote:it's better to write JavaScript as JavaScript, and not wrap it up in tag libraries.
If what David means is that it's unnecessary to wrap JavaScript in obfuscating tags, then I heartily agree. If he means that the use of a JavaScript library like jQuery is unnecessary, not so much.
Yeah, I'm referring to the wrapping. Writing "naked" JavaScript in this day and age is wholly unnecessary. (And come on, you "know" me better than that ;)
I think tags are fine for really simple usecases ("click this link and something shows up over there"), but for much beyond that, it's really, really debatable. Even for the simple usecase it depends on JavaScript philosophy (degradation, when JS is loaded, etc.) and the tag library in question.
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