hugo wrote: > >Dojo seems to rely on adding its own unnamespaced attributes to normal > >elements. Is this compatible with strict use of XHTML? > > That would be my biggest technical gripe (beside the missing > documentation) with Dojo - (X)HTML with invented unnamespaced tags > will not validate any more, and if there is something I really don't > like, it's non-validating code. It's a real pain to build CSS for pages > that don't validate.
There's nothing in Dojo that explicitly requires that you use these attributes... we just find it to be easier. For example, instead of declaring a widget type as dojoType="foo", using a tag in the dojo xml namepsace, i.e. dojo:foo, or overloading css class names, class="dojo-foo". Admiteddly, we do not have a formal doctype or schema available yet for Dojo, but if that is a high priority for the community, we can work on that. That said, I don't see how "it's a real pain to build CSS for pages that don't validate." I see validation as a means to find errors, not something to blindly follow, and not as a means to prevent you from doing things in your own namespace. The reason we often do things like dojoType="foo" is that namespace stuff doesn't work well on IE. But that still doesn't explain to me why it is a real pain, as we do it all the time with no pain. :) -Dylan Schiemann
