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Separating Content from Presentation the Dojo Way

One of the cool things about Dojo is the dojo.xhrGet() function. It's powerful because it makes transparent the browser dependent transports that make AJAX possible. In this cookie, we're going to explore a simple use case in Dojo to separate content from the presentation of a page. This means that if you want to update some content of a specific portion of a page, you may not want to require the user to 'refresh' the entire page to see the new content. Read the rest of this entry »

Date added: June 18th, 2008 | Author: gtducati

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Dojo and Air, a fancy file uploader

How many times have you had trouble uploading files to your favorite CMS? How many times did a client say "I am not happy with uploading one file at a time"? And last but not least, how many times did you implement a third party plugin/software/piece of magic to implement efficient file uploading?
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Date added: April 2nd, 2008 | Author: nonken

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No end to rounded corners

After the last tutorial on how to make fancy rounded tabs, I thought it might be interesting to take a look on how to make a widget which lets you transform a simple "div" into a nice looking one with rounded corners and flexible width/height, using just one image.
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Date added: March 21st, 2008 | Author: nonken

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The dojo.moj.oe

As I mentioned in the dojo.moj.oe blog entry, I have every intention of fully tutorial-izing the demo. To continue from where we left off with the topic cookie and simultaneously start a series of small tutorials, I present to you: Mojo part I

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Date added: March 3rd, 2008 | Author: dante

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Preface to DnD: topics

This is a quick cookie to cover a really cool topic. Custom events and Dom Events are all well and good for method-to-method functionality. It is a really common use case to connect some event happening to call another function, but when you get into really ambiguous, large applications, you need some mechanism to just say "hey, something has happened, act accordingly" ... dojo.publish and dojo.subscribe provide just that mechanism.

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Date added: February 29th, 2008 | Author: dante