[Dojo-interest] Idea for instant widget construction

[Cameron Braid]

I have an idea that I would like to share about how to construct widgets
as the document is loading, which enables them to be activated
immediately, instead of having to wait till onload is called.


        javascript code :
        
        dojo.widget.createInline = function(tagName, params) {
                var id = dojo.dom.getUniqueId();
                var divString= "<div id='" + id + "'></div>";
                document.write(divString);
                var div = document.getElementById(id);
                dojo.widget.createWidget(tagName, params, div);
        }
         
        usage in html :
         
        <h2>look at my widget :</h2>
        <script>dojo.widget.createInline('DateSelect')</script>
         
        <h2>look at my widget :</h2>
        <script>dojo.widget.createInline('DateSelect',
        {id:'dateSelect'})</script> 

An alternative, which still uses the <div dojoType=''> notation could be
like this :

        <h2>look at my widget :</h2>
        <div dojoType='DateSelect'
        id='dateSelect'></div><script>dojo.widget.parsePreviousNode()</script> 
        
        parsePreviousNode would  look in the dom for the previous node
        that is a widget type node, and trigger the dojo widget parser
        to construct it.

Cheers,


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Cameron Braid
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