Sitepen has announced the release of Dojo 1.0 (not RC).  It’s a major new platform for us to work with and features some incredible new capabilities.

• ccessibility including keyboard navigation, low vision support, and ARIA markup for assistive technologies
• High performance grid widget supporting 100,000+ rows of data
• Browser-native 2-D and 3-D charting
• A full library of easy-to-use, attractive UI controls
• Universal data access for simple and fast data-driven widget development
• Internationalization with localizations provided for 13 major languages
• CSS-driven themes to make customization and extension simple
• Dojo Offline, based on Google Gears, which makes offline applications easy to build
• Support for the OpenAjax Alliance Hub 1.0 to guarantee interoperability with other toolkits
• Native 2-D and 3-D vector graphics drawing
• Access to many more widgets and extensions through the Dojo package system

 http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2007/11/05/announcing-dojo-10/

I try not to get too excited about Beta & RC releases around here, but Dojo 1.0 RC 1 is a big deal.

Many, groundbreaking changes have gone into the Dojo .9 & 1.0 release cycle ranging from complete reorganization of the toolkit & major performance increases to innovative new ways to approach AJAX programming itself.

It’s still an RC and not fully ready for prime time, but I plan on taking it out for a spin.

http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/11/02/dojo-1-0-release-candidate-1 

Aptana 1.0 has landed, sports loads of new features and the inevitable release of a Pro version.

Some of the New Features

• CSS Preview
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Formatting
• Code drag and drop
• Visual ScriptDoc Explorer
• Improved Help
• Loads of Polish

What’s with the new name?

The Aptana IDE has been rebranded Aptana Studio, likely to reflect the upcoming spectrum of products from the company.

What’s with the pro version?

So Aptana has released a Pro version of the studio.  The Pro version includes several features intended to streamline development and hopefully justify the new $99 price tag (expect the price to go up to $199 in the future).

The new pro features:

• JSON Editor
• Internet Explorer Debugging
• Remote Project Creation
• FTPS and SFTP Support
• Reporting Engine

You can find more information on the Aptana Blog

http://www.aptana.com/blog/?p=200?diff=y 

You can download the software here:

http://aptana.com/download/