Alright, enough with Dojo. No, the project is not dead or anything, I've just switched my loyalties. It was nice while it lasted, but the more I got into it the less I liked it. jQuery is a better fit, at least for me and for what I want to use it for. <!-- SUMMARY_END -->
Here's how it happened. I wanted to add some date pickers and a tabbed-layer area to one form, and plug in Eric Florenzano's Django threadedcomments to my templates. Eflo used jQuery in his threadedcomments example, and at first I thought I'd be able to whip up a Dojo version of that. I'm sure I could given enough time, but the clock was ticking. I took another look at jQuery and Eflo's examples, and jQuery started to feel less like a black box and more like something I could work with. I switched everything over and feel like I made a good choice.
I wish there was better writing in the Javascript space about the differences between jQuery and Dojo and the other toolkits. As a Javascript outsider it was hard to figure out the strengths and weakness of the frameworks, and the differences in the problems they're trying to solve. I also realized that some programmers seem to be using several of the frameworks together, so they seem to address different levels of the application stack. I haven't found any good writing that articulates this, and I'm not quite sure I understand it well enough to do it myself.