Posts Tagged ‘ dojox ’

Encrypted client-side storage with dojo

A couple of days ago, Nicholas Zakas wrote an article about secure client side storage. I think the scenario he mentioned (working from a cyber cafe) is not unsafe by nature, and could be well handled by an application. Nonetheless, client side storage such as localStorage still is subject to DNS spoofing attacks (which is [ READ MORE ]

Promises with dojo – a lightweight alternative to dojo.Deferred

Update: Micheil Smith had a cool idea to improve this and posted it in the comments. I have updated the test page and the code examples to reflect his idea. Thanks Micheil! Update II: Ben Hockey proposed to do the whole thing without using the pub/sub system. I for one think its a good idea, but [ READ MORE ]

Working with the Curve – Advanced Animation with Dojo

If you use animations, you probably use them to animate CSS properties. But this post is about some real bareknuckle animation – using the dojo toolkit. We’ll have a look into dojo.Animation and talk about the curve, the line, easing and rate, and we’ll check out (the somehow undocumented) dojox.fx._core – and see how to [ READ MORE ]

persistent local storage with dojo

Last year, Brian Leroux’s Lawnchair caught my interest – it is an easy and fast way to access local persistant local storage. Uh, persistant local storage? Ahm, yeah, in case you don’t know, that means a client-side storage, be it in a browser, or in an Air app. It’s not very popular, but that concept has been [ READ MORE ]

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 member [ READ MORE ]