Update: The providers attached to this post are part of dojox.storage now – no need to download them, just get a copy of dojo, and everything is there. Update II: dojox.storage won’t make it into dojo 2.0 and is not compatible with the new dojo/store API. For future-safe persistent client-side storage, see Storehouse – Client
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Posts Categorized: Dojo Love
More fun with strings: dojo.string.contains()
In the series “convenience wrappers for small tasks that increase code readability”, today contains() is starring. Having a contains() method could also serve another purpose: to maybe prevent people from using match() to find out if a string contains a given substring (what is still proposed in some JS tutorials out there…). So, I want
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Keyboard accessibility for dojox.layout.FloatingPane
Well, I don’t really see a use for FloatingPane, except as a windowing system for projects like LucidDesktop, but I got the impression that many people just love the FloatingPane. However, it caught my attention these days. One of its major drawbacks – and the one that keeps it pretty far from becoming a joyful
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dojo.string.beginsWith()
Most cases where you find String.substr() in the wild are to check if a given string begins with a certain other string. Be it checking for a prefix or sorting out zipcodes that begin with certain numbers. And because code readability is a good thing (really, it is important), it would be nice to have
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A collapsible fieldset as dojo widget
Though many people would disagree, I for one like to use fieldsets to structure complex forms. Even better do I like fieldsets that are collapsible. As there is no such fieldset with dojo, I decided to write my own widget. While doing so, I learnt an interesting lesson… First, I wrote it pretty simple, inheriting
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