Just a random thought but perhaps you should put up a honeypot version on it's own server to see where the weak spots in security are. Then invite the community to find the holes, or actually ask the hacking communities to help identify gaps in security? Honeypot in this instance meaning a machine dedicated to pulling in attacks (Like flies to honey) to help you identify weak areas of your framework.
I would suspect the business model will be support and feature development. In a widely used framework, there will always be people who need it customized, or need to integrate it in new and interesting ways, or require some sort of commercial support contract in order to use it. If they make these options available early on, they will make money.
Thanks for your reply, I'll give it a go. I'll be going through a learning curve no matter what I do, but I think I will actually be more productive coding it directly. I'm off to see how to integrate coffescript with Dojo, should be fun :)
I like jQuery, though it's not a widget provider, Dojo I've consistently run into compatibility issues with over the years, as it seems a bit IE-centric and it's still pretty heavy weight. Although I did notice the newest version seems to boast a revamp.
I liked YUI a lot, and it's clear they put some really solid engineering into their framework but it's a rocky road for Yahoo and they haven't really been updating their api's.
I'm trying to reduce the number of dependencies and like the ability to only load what's needed for a page. Realistically though I am after the equivalent of ImageBundle in GWT, that combines images into one image and maps all the related CSS/JS refs to the single image map.
I'll check out Dojo again but I'm still curious what else is out there?