I quite like dojo. As a total non-Web developer, who nonetheless is forced to put together internal web apps from time to time, dojo just seems to get the job d

I quite like dojo. As a total non-Web developer, who nonetheless is forced to put together internal web apps from time to time, dojo just seems to get the job done. I use dojo layouts a lot, as i could not code the necessary css in a million years. Yes it cheats and uses Javascript to resize components, something that apparently makes Web purists cry, but for me it was just another quick solution that worked. Similarly dojo 2d charts -- there may be better solutions out there, but with dojo they are built in and just work for the most part. I think the Ajax model works pretty well, although the whole promises/futures took a bit to get used to. There its definitely a learning curve, and if i just wanted a bit of dom manipulation i would probably still just use jquery-- but i found dojo to be invaluable when it came to developing more complex client side apps that could make use of a batteries included framework. Things i didn't like - a lot of the documentation seemed to relate to a prior version (i started with 1.8 i think), so finding the appropriate way to do something could take a bit of work. Also debugging was often difficult, as the error was often raised in some anonymous function created deep within dojo. Sometimes the stack traces were useful, sometimes not.