CodeStore.net comments on "Using YUI and Dojo With Domino"

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:22:00 +0100

It's hard to put my finger on the exact problems I had with the widgets. Basically it's that most of the libraries assume you have FULL control of the HTML you output. We don't.

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:16:00 +0100

@ Joseph

The to field issue is one you can handle manually - just loop through the name value pairs in the post request header and add fields where a name exists in the QueryString that isn't already a form. This of course requires an agent process all your posts. This is a little bit more towards a MVC design pattern, but within the realm of things one might do to make Domino behave.

Reply from Joseph Le Brech

Joseph Le Brech — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:14:00 +0100

Assigning picked date to a field, with dojo and backbase. so yui work good?

Reply from Esther Strom

Esther Strom — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:47:00 +0100

I was able to use the YUI calendar control with Domino. It took some hacking around before I figured it out, but it does work. What issues did you have?

Reply from Joseph Le Brech

Joseph Le Brech — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:39:00 +0100

Maybe have to resort to using backbase.

The code for the calendar picker is this.

So you can see the b:input="~input[1]"

that bit must make the previous input the value of the current.

Anyway the first input is easily replacable with a domino field.

Reply from YoGi

YoGi — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:52:00 +0100

Which problems do you experience with integrating thoses toolkits into Domino ? I've used lots of YUI modules (connection, animation, dom, event, etc) as well as YUI widgets (treeview, etc) without any problem.

I mean, no more problems that thoses you may experience with "traditionnal" javascript development with Domino.

I'm just curious, so please, share your feedbacks.

Reply from Steve Castledine

Steve Castledine — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:22:00 +0100

That is definately a downside with Dojo right now - documentation! You have to figure a lot out for yourself - unlike the other frameworks.

Reply from Jeff Crossett

Jeff Crossett — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:19:00 +0100

I was trying to put together a demo of Jack Slocum's YUI Grid using a ReadViewEntries XML stream but in the end, I too gave up. The default view xml is not valid, so one must write an agent. In the end, I'll just adapt the grid to my old employee directory example.

Reply from Matt White

Matt White — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:51:00 +0100

I've been working on a project using Dojo and Domino for a while now and due to the lack of documentation it's pretty slow going. That being said I do enjoy having to work everything out and you certainly pick up a detailed understanding of how their code actually works.

As I pick up the real oddities I'm posting them over at my site, for example: {Link}

Matt

Reply from Joseph Le Brech

Joseph Le Brech — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:51:00 +0100

The real shame with domino is that if I add a tag, domino doesnt make it work as a document field, and you must find some workaround. There should be a "HTML form name to field" feature.