[Dojo-interest] [ANN] 0.4.2rc1 and the plan for 0.9/1.0

[Karl Tiedt]

there already is a standardized format for form widgets however some
widgets still need reform i believe

On 2/16/07, Aaron Evans <aaronmevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> This new web based build tool sounds great but can it incorporate my
> custom code libraries into a build using this tool?
>
> If not, I sure hope that there will be still some good documentation
> on doing the build manually with ant if this process is going to
> change significantly.
>
> On another topic, for dijit, this re-factoring sounds like a really
> good idea and I look forward to the final product.
>
> But, I would like to again propose that there be a special sub-class
> of widgets for form use (ie user input).  These sub-classes should
> consistently implement methods like enable/disable, onblur/onfocus,
> onchange and provide ways to easily set the name that will be used for
> the name value pair upon form submission and an easy way to set an
> initial value (ie in an edit scenario).  I'm sure there are a slew of
> other things that could be added to this specification.
>
> In future, I think having some kind of FormElementWiget
> interface/specification would go a long way to adding some structure
> there.  And I am sure that there could be countless other kinds of
> useful interfaces for sub-classes of widgets that would also be
> beneficial, but my use has primarily been around user input.
>
> just my 2 cents,
> aaron
>
> On 2/15/07, Alex Russell <alex at dojotoolkit.org> wrote:
> > http://blog.dojotoolkit.org/2007/02/15/dojo-042-and-beyond
> >
> > Regards
> >
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-Karl Tiedt