Comments on: Deft-fully using Dojo and Flex

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:46:22 +0000

I’m unsure of how much of Dojo I need for this. Do I need to download he whole furball?

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:19:57 +0000

Will future widgets depend on Flash being installed? Or will they always have to laboriously have some fallback if Flash is absent or too old? I’m not saying that’s a terrible thing (Flash is in, what, 95% of browsers). I’m just curious. If a future Dojo widget depends upon Flash, will it prompt the user to install or turn on Flash?

By: ttrenka

ttrenka — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:07:06 +0000

@Nosredna:
You’re right–we’re just getting the project up and running, and there is not much there yet. In terms of direction…the point is as you guessed, to provide a way of getting more things out of a browser than we currently have, such as audio/video–as well as make up for the shortcomings in certain browsers.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:55:13 +0000

This looks fun. I may try it this week. I can’t say I understand the roadmap for Deft, though. Seems like it’s just getting up and running, but I’m not sure what direction it’s going.
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What’s the point of it, exactly? To provide services for future widgets in a nice AJAX-friendly way? That’s the best I can figure.

By: elazutkin

elazutkin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:58:00 +0000

I want to mention Mike Wilcox, who pushes Deft together with Tom Trenka. Great job, guys, keep the ball rolling!