[Catalyst] Do you dojo?

Andrew Bramble andrew.bramble at omnilab.com.au
Fri Jun 2 02:02:43 CEST 2006


On Friday 02 June 2006 04:28, Matt S Trout wrote:
> Toby Corkindale wrote:
> > So, is anyone using Dojo? (Regardless of whether you got it thru
> > HTML::Dojo or Alien::Dojo.. :)
> >
> > I managed to get my head around Prototype a while back, and was happily
> > using that.. but I've had a couple of looks at Dojo, and so far have
> > come away feeling totally baffled each time.
> > IMHO, their documentation is really lacking an overall guide to how it
> > fits together, and how you should go about using it.
> > Perhaps there is one out there somewhere that I've missed?
> > Or at least just a few annotated examples?
>
> There was a really good article on ajaxian recently; mostly I got
> started by skimming what docs were there and then poking through
> http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/tests/ and a checkout of trunk.
>

Agreed the nightly tests are rather the best 'documentation' of the widget set 
- still there are some gotchas, like widgets that dont play well with others 
- or widgets that require quirks mode (see the DTD of the tabContainer test)




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