title: What happened to Dojo in 2008?
body: <p>Many of you have seen <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=jquery%2Cdojo%2Cyui" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Google Trends: jquery,dojo,yui">this graph</a> of Google Trends of popular AJAX frameworks (Dojo, jQuery, YUI).</p>
  
  <p>The graph seems to make it clear that interest in Dojo collapsed in the second quarter of 2008, falling by 80%; jQuery picked up the slack and ultimately grew to more than triple the size of Dojo.</p>
  
  <p>Why?  What happened in Q2 2008 that demolished interest in Dojo?</p>
  
  <p>(Note that I'm not really interested in a comparison of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394601/which-javascript-framework-jquery-vs-dojo-vs" title="Which Javascript framework (jQuery vs Dojo vs … )?">Dojo vs. jQuery</a>; even if you can explain why one is better than the other, it's hard to see why that suddenly became clear to the world in April 2008.)</p>