[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Dojo Release 1.2.0

[David Fiander]

Damn but I'm glad I got out of Dojo

- David

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Bill Erickson <erickson at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:13:04 -0400, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dojo released 1.2.0 a few days ago; here are my findings as of last
>>> night (yay planes) with a quick run-through of Conify and Vandelay:
>>>
>>>  * no more dojo.js.uncompressed.js - so in those few places where we
>>> did call it, we would need to just point at dojo.js instead (a
>>> debugging version must still be available but our defaults in
>>> delivered files should point to dojo.js anyway)
>>>  * dojox.grid._data.* has moved to dojox.grid.compat._data.* (this is
>>> now deprecated and will no longer be maintained - a new Grid has been
>>> added that will be the preferred grid going forward)
>>>  * dojox.grid.editors has moved to dojox.grid.compat._data.editors
>>
>> That's more change than I'd hoped for (or thought there would be) but
>> obviously not unmanageable. :)
>>
>>>
>>> I have attached a patch for Conify; no changes were needed for
>>> Vandelay. My testing was largely to the point of getting things
>>> working without JS errors in Conify and Vandelay, and testing date
>>> picker widget / display in the OPAC, but nothing deeper.
>>>
>>> So the question: should we switch to 1.2.0 using these compatibility
>>> mechanisms so that the prereq will already be in place if we decide to
>>> rewrite to use the new "easier-to-use" Grids? Or maybe it's a moot
>>> point because we're going to sidestep the problem by packaging our own
>>> Dojo build for EG anyway.
>>>
>>
>> If we have a patch, and the JS loads, then I'm for upping the version of
>> Dojo.
>
> Agreed on 1.2.  However, I put 1.2 on dev.gapines.org and applied the patch
> locally and found 2 additional issues.  We seemed to have lost some styling
> in Vandelay (the blue gradient css) and we're getting the extra scroll bars
> in the Vandelay queue grid (a la pre-LayoutContainer).  LayoutContainers are
> technically deprecated in 1.2, so even though they exist, they may be
> broken.
>
> I'm experimenting with alternatives.  If I run into any showstoppers, I'll
> report.
>
> Thanks, Dan!
>
> -b
>
>
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