Sep 6

Pimped my blog with Dojo   Posted by sharps, tagged with dojo hacking javascript roller

[note for non-US readers - by pimped I mean - 'tricked out' or 'blingbling' as in Pimp My Ride - nothing to do with prostitution]

Recently, I managed to convince the nice folks that run blogs.sun.com to host the Dojo toolkit - which they did. Subsequently I've been meaning to find the time to add some Dojo widgets to this blog and finally got around to it - see the Fisheye Category chooser at the top of the page. Hold off with the feedback for now - this is just a first hack and I know it needs some buffing.

What I thought might take an hour or so took much longer. My initial inclination was to use a tabbed layout for the categories but I ran into considerable 'impedence mismatch' between Roller's model and Dojo's so I dropped it and went for the much less intrusive FishEye instead. The tabbed layout will be a much better fit for the right-hand nav bar (and save space too). There are some other layout containers that might be a good fit for actual entries.

I've noticed that the image scaling is rather sucky with Firefox but is much cleaner on IE - though on IE the whole thing is badly broken - sorry IE users - you'll need one of these - I probably need to experiment with larger image sizes but I was trying to keep them as lean as possible. Note - I used transparent PNGs (ie. they have no background) - that's a pretty neat Photoshop trick.

I'll post some code when it's been tidied up a bit

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