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On 07/31/2013 03:53 AM, Mikkel Høgh
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I see the non-js version to be mainly a starting point. I do think you're right, JS is becoming so ubiquitous and necessary in so many places, it's probably fine to drop the requirement that it works without JS. Though I do think about things like a text-only version, e.g. lynx or links. I don't think we need to support js disabled for modern browsers, but at least at this point it seems wise to preserve the current html form posting and data retrieval without requiring JS, and then enhance from there. At least for the time being...
I don't see the need to keep things the same in the JS version as the non-JS version. I just think we should keep it *possible* to use non-js, not necessarily *usable*. With dojo, it's pretty easy to change the output to match the current Form API in use by the text version, regardless of the widget in use -- we might need to extend it to rewrite the value field, but that's not hard. As I mentioned earlier, I would prefer to enhance the interfaces further and post/put JSON blobs to the web service, rather than using a regular form post with the current values, but that will take more work server side, and again, I personally don't want this to hold up the release of 1.4. Yes, and most Dojo core widgets already specify a lot of this. Ok, I've got a full day today, so I won't be able to get this in now. But I can probably commit my Dojo work to trunk tomorrow or the next day, unless I hear a "no" before then. Meanwhile there are a few other decisions to be made about how to make it easy to start adding Dojo widgets -- basically defining how to hook it up, so we can distribute this work. Here's how I'm thinking of setting this up/what you would need to do in each template: 1. In the top section, in the dojo_include array, list any widgets in use on the page to be loaded and instantiated by the parser. E.g. 'dijit/form/DateTextBox', 'dijit/form/CurrencyTextBox','lsmb/accounts/AccountSelector' 2. Also in the top section, if there's a custom handler for this page, set it in dojo_load, e.g. "dojo_load = lsmb/Contact/handler". This is assumed to be an AMD module that returns an object with an init() method/function, which will be called after the page is loaded and ready. This is optional. 3. If either dojo_include or dojo_load is included in a template, dojo.js will get added to the page, the modules require'd, and the dojo parser called to parse the page. If dojo_load is specified, the init function will get called after the parser -- but any modules it require's will get loaded before the parser runs. 4. I'm thinking I'll define some new element types in UI/libs/elements.html -- accountselector, date, currency, contact, part. These elements will be hooked up to user locale and currency preferences, as well as data sources back in LSMB. So once these exist, all that will be necessary to "widget-ize" an element will be to change the <?lsmb include input element_data = ... to <?lsmb include accountselector element_data = ... There will probably be some additional attributes for element data, such as "foreign currency" for currency, "contact type", etc. 5. What I already hooked up adds a dojo_type attribute to any of the form elements, making it possible to make any form element a dojo widget of the specified class. I can also add a dojo_param attribute to support anything that would go into a data-dojo-props string on the HTML element. #4 and #5 are two different ways to do pretty much the same thing -- #5 is useful for prototyping/experimenting, but #4 will make it much easier to reuse elements across screens. Thoughts? Suggestions? Cheers, John Locke http://www.freelock.com |