Simon Willison’s Weblog

Secure mashups with dojox.secure (via) dojox.secure is brilliant and terrifying at the same time. It provides a full featured API for running untrusted JavaScript in a sandbox, by parsing and validating that code against a variant of Douglas Crockford’s ADsafe JavaScript subset. It could be fantastically useful, but it’s difficult to judge how secure this approach really is.

# 24th September 2008, 4:08 pm / adsafe, dojo, dojox, dojoxsecure, javascript, kriszyp, mashups, sandboxing, security

AOP aspect of JavaScript with Dojo. Fantastic post—concisely explains Aspect Oriented Programming, then shows how Dojo’s dojox.lang.aspect brings AOP to JavaScript, including some really useful built-in aspects for logging, profiling and more. Aspects are like Python decorators on steroids.

# 18th May 2008, 10:45 am / aop, aspects, decorators, dojo, dojox, eugenelazutkin, javascript, python

dojox.gfx demos. Impressive demos of the Dojo 2D drawing APIs—these need to be linked from the dojo site, it took me quite a while to find them.

# 16th March 2008, 4:24 pm / 2d, dojo, dojox, drawing, gfx, javascript

Announcing Dojo 1.0. The tough learning curve that accompanied 0.4 and earlier has been replaced with an elegant core module (dojo) and two exciting subprojects (dojox and dijit). Well worth a look.

# 7th November 2007, 1:17 pm / dijit, dojo, dojox, javascript