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Dojo FAQ: How do you cleanly remove aspect handles? 19 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
In addition to a simple, consistent, cross-browser interface to DOM events, dojo/on provides for very convenient clean-up – the function returns a handle with a remove method that will un-register the...
Dojo FAQ: What is the map config option? 3 Jul 2013 | 08:08 pm
In our previous post, we briefly highlighted the distinctions between packages, paths, and aliases. In particular, we noted that you can do some interesting things with paths and aliases for creating ...
Dojo FAQ: What is the difference between a package, a path and an alias? 20 Jun 2013 | 09:54 pm
Dojo provides many settings to configure the optimal loading and building of your application source code. We are often asked about the differences between packages, paths, and aliases. Here we provid...
Dojo FAQ: Why doesn’t my mouse event have pageX/Y or layerX/Y? Doesn’t Dojo normalize events? 23 May 2013 | 12:30 am
Position properties on mouse events The W3 specification for DOM events includes clientX/Y and screenX/Y properties on MouseEvents, but pageX/Y, layerX/Y, and offsetX/Y are non-standard properties. Th...
Dojo FAQ: Is there a way to extend a widget’s template (e.g. Dialog)? 16 May 2013 | 03:02 am
There are indeed ways of doing so, but while Dijit strives to provide extensible modules that can serve as a basis for your own custom modules, templates are a tricky thing to deal with. A brief revie...
Dojo FAQ: Does Dijit have a confirm dialog? 8 May 2013 | 10:01 pm
No, Dijit does not provide pre-configured dialogs, like alert, confirm, or prompt. Why? As simple as these may seem on the surface, each organization or application often needs something subtly differ...
Dojo FAQ: Why doesn’t my BorderContainer display? 2 May 2013 | 09:52 pm
One of the most common questions we get asked is why a BorderContainer may not be displaying. There are two very common gotchas that we typically see when it comes to BorderContainer use. Width/height...
Meet your newest Intern 1 May 2013 | 09:10 pm
JavaScript tooling has gained a huge amount of attention over the past few years, no doubt due to the language’s rapidly increasing popularity and maturity. Many fantastic utilities and powerful debug...
Dojo FAQ: What properties are available to me on the event object when using dojo/on? 26 Apr 2013 | 11:20 pm
The dojo/on module not only provides a simple, consistent interface for registering event handlers, it also ensures that the event object passed to your handler implements the W3C event model (W3C rec...
Dojo FAQ: dojo/domReady vs dojo/ready 17 Apr 2013 | 08:55 pm
We answer many, many, many questions on a daily basis through our dojo training workshops, JavaScript support plans and during our customers’ development projects. We have bucket-loads of answered que...
