[edit: Looks Like I jumped the mark after all 2.0 RC1 has been released ;0) ]

I think I’m a bit slow on announcing this one, but EXT has been updated to 2.0.

EXT is a fantastic JavaScript library that really goes a long way to opening up the possibilities for anyone building a top JavaScript based application.

2.0 has been in Beta for a while but now it’s released we are going to see a huge improvement in applications offered using EXT as a base.

Anyone currently using EXT 1.1 should consider an update. The documentation has been revamped for this release so you should have little trouble updating. EXT 2.0 lays down the gauntlet to the other JS libraries available and bost an impressive array of customers including SAP (Research), Time Warner Cable, Sony Online Entertainment and CNN.

Anyone developing multi browser capable sites / applications using JavaScript should consider EXT a must as it covers the full gamut of common browsers including:

• Internet Explorer 6+
• FireFox 1.5+ (PC, Mac)
• Safari 2+
• Opera 9+ (PC, Mac)

Check out the documentation here and be sure not to miss the samples which do a damn fine job of showing just some of the capabilities EXT offers. You can access the samples from the main panel on the homepage.

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Technorati Tags: EXT 2.0

Looks like I must have lost a few feeds when I moved over to GreatNews and imported. I’ve a feeling I fell fould of the flat tree structure and thought that it had duplicated some stuff. This means I’m a bit behind on some updates.

The Dojo blog had a recent anouncement of the release of version 0.4.2:

Dojo 0.4.2
We’re happy to announce that Dojo 0.4.2 is available. We recommend that all 0.4.x users upgrade at their earliest convenience.

0.4.2 is a minor patch update to 0.4.1 and includes a tightly selected set of fixes for 0.4.1 issues. As a result, we anticipate that 0.4.2 will be a straightforward upgrade for existing 0.4.x users.

Getting 0.4.2 is simple (just follow the download link at the top of the page), but there some new goodies for advanced toolkit users:

• A new version of the web based build tool has been released for creating custom
  dojo.js

  files. You can replace the

  dojo.js

  from any release with these files to improve the page loading performance of your application

• 0.4.2 has been adopted by AOL for hosting in their CDN, and we’ve updated instructions on how to use it
• Cross-domain package loading is significantly more robust in 0.4.2, style operations are much faster, and common-case event connection speed has been improved on IE. Big-ish apps should benefit from all of these changes.

Every release has it’s heroes, and for 0.4.2 I’d like to extend my personal thanks to James Burke for the amazing work he’s put into ensuring that the build system and cross-domain issues were 100% sorted out so that everything works. It’s a tremendous accomplishment that AOL considers 0.4.2 to be “prime time”, and we couldn’t have done it without James.