Allow conditional exclusion of dojo scripts in simple/head.ftl
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Key: WW-1822
URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1822
Project: Struts 2
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Views
Affects Versions: 2.0.6
Reporter: Jasper Rosenberg
I am extending the xhtml theme, but I am not using any of the Dojo features (no
tooltips, optiontransferselect, etc.) It would be great if there was a
parameter I could therefore pass to the "head" tag to have it exclude the dojo
scripts, something like the following "if" around the entire contents of
head.ftl:
<#if parameters.excludeDojo!false>
...
</#if>
Obviously, I have a workaround right now which is just to override head.ftl in
my custom theme to be empty, but I think it would be reasonable to provide an
easy way for users to avoid including a11,000 line javascript file (250k) when
it isn't needed :)
If I might also rant for a moment, overall my experience porting from WW2 to
Struts2 has been positive, but the number one change that I think is a huge
mistake is pushing the dependency on Dojo all the way into the simple theme
rather than keeping it isolated to the AJAX theme. I certainly understand the
desire to be able to leverage Dojo in a few convenient places (like tooltips),
but by forcing Dojo on anyone using a standard theme, you have basically
rejected anyone using Struts2 for a project with low bandwidth users (without
doing a bunch of custom work) and I think that is unfortunate and a step in the
wrong direction. If anything, it seems like the goal should be to make the
Struts2/Dojo connection as isolated as possible to allow other javascript
frameworks to be plugged in in the future. End rant. :)
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