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Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Comments for Google I/O, In Retrospect


Hi Alex! Thanks for the nice feedback. BTW, I renamespaced Dojo to 'pu' instead of 'pt'. I've also backed off mostly from making a custom Base build. At first I stripped out Dojo Query and the base FX manipulations. However, I couldn't keep myself from using Dojo Query since its just so useful :) I could knock things down to about 32K minified non-gzipped, but the fact that Dojo Base is just so small gzipped means that making smaller slices of it doesn't necessarily matter for this project. However, being able to do this cleanly in the future is really nice using the customBase property; for example, I sometimes have projects that just need the Base language utilities, package handling, and basic XHR support, and being able to use customBase for these is really nice. The customBase and renamespacing stuff (along with being able to use D.O.H. for external projects in a much easier way, which I'm also using) are all really nice new features.

Best, Brad