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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev2010-04-21 04:10 pm
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dojotoolkit & accessibility

In discussion in #gsoc this afternoon, one of the project mentors from DojoToolkit mentioned that they're the first JS toolkit with full accessibility support in their base widgets. We should totally look into it!

(Edit: He also PMed me to say: "if you have immediate questions, our community info can be found here: http://dojotoolkit.org/get-involved/ and I can be found here: http://ktiedt.dojotoolkit.org/gsoc/2010/karl.html", and offered whatever help we would need with integration ... his DW username is [personal profile] ktiedt, so welcome.)
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[personal profile] jadelennox 2010-04-21 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude! Also, I keep staring at my open bugs and not doing anything on them, so looking into Dojo might be a good way for me to get back in the swing of things.
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[personal profile] pauamma 2010-04-22 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Great. Just as I had about talked myself into taking a look at that newfangled jQuery thing. You did that on purpose, right? :-)

(Joke aside, does it and jQuery provide the same or similar features, or do they complement each other?)
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btw

[personal profile] ktiedt 2010-04-23 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Do feel free to ping me by any of the means listed on the webpage Denise listed, I really don't care which way you choose just make sure I know who you are :P

If someone wants to point out a place where you might want to use more JS to improve a page... I'll gladly start giving some advice/mockups of what that page might look like with Dojo involved :)
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[personal profile] afuna 2010-04-23 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm concerned: we are already working with two libraries (the one we inherited from LJ, and the more recent jQuery). If we add dojo, that's yet another series of behavior/syntax/rules that devs will need to know, depending on which page they're working on.

I don't think they they'll conflict as code (well... the current/old JS library might :-) it messes up jQuery something fierce, unless you load jQuery first, haven't tried dojo), but I'm worrying over fragmenting the dev efforts this way.
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