FDJT.org

A Lightweight Web Toolkit

FDJT (pronounced /ˈfɪdʒɪt/ as in "fidget") is a lightweight portable Web toolkit developed by beingmeta and released under the GNU LGPL. FDJT doesn't introduce any new abstractions but adds useful functionality to the abstractions already provided by Javascript and the DOM (Document Object Model). This distinguishes it from noble efforts like Prototype or Dojo and also from herculean efforts like Google's GWT, or Adobe's AIR.

Getting ItYou can download FDJT from here, or check it out of subversion from:

Organization FDJT is organized into of multiple files:

• domutils.js implements functions for accessing and manipulating the DOM, some shamelessly stolen (as ideas) from other toolkits. Pretty much all the other modules depend on this one.
• fdjt.css provides some handy definitions as well as default styling for some of the classes introduced by the other components.
• handlers.js implements event handlers for various cool bits of UI functionality. These are all pretty simple and our guideline is that if the functionality requires more than three functions, it gets its own file. All functions in this file end with the corresponding handler property name (e.g. fdjtTab_onclick).
• handlers.js implements event handlers for various cool bits of UI functionality. These are all pretty simple and our guideline is that if the functionality requires more than three functions, it gets its own file. All functions in this file end with the corresponding handler property name (e.g. fdjtTab_onclick).
• json.js provides a JSON parser to use in reading script content or Ajax results.

History FDJT stands for FramerD Javascript Toolkit and was originally implemented to support beingmeta's web prototypes. In an adopted Harvard tradition, FDJT could be known as the web toolkit of 3 lies, to wit:

1. FDJT no longer has much to do with FramerD but is much more general. (The FramerD specific functionality is now in framerd.js).
2. FDJT is not limited to Javascript, but contains a fair amount of CSS and is likely to include code in other languages (PHP, Perl, Python, Scheme, the usual suspects) which generates HTML that leverages the toolkit.
3. There are really only two lies. Sorry.

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