Learning Dojo - browser compatibility

[Mourouganandame Arunachalam]

Hi Peter,

I just started exploring Dojo. Personally it's a good time for me to learn more about Dojo because of this promo.

Ok... I just want to know how Dojo is handling on the varieties of browsers in the market, since it's been executed only on browser side. (IE, Firefox, Safari etc).

TIA
Mourougan

[Reghu Ram Thanumalayan]

Hi,
I guess Dojo does a good job of shielding the javascript programmer from the various browser incompatibilites and hence you will not have to worry about how your javascript code will work in different browsers.

One example for this is the Dojo storage which allows clientside storage on the browser. For Firefox, the native storage is used whereas for other browsers, a hidden flash component is used. So the programmer wouldnt need to worry about how it is implemented

Just my 2 cents.

Regards,
Reghu
[ December 02, 2008: Message edited by: Reghu Ram Thanumalayan ]

[Peter Svensson]

Absolutely.
All Dojo components that are not in the dojox / experimental branch are fully cross-browser compatible, down to IE6. Even in Dojox, almost everything is cross-browser compatible as well, with very few exceptions. As soon as an experimental component fills the criteria of fully cross-browser compatible, i18n and ARIA/WAI supportive, it gets moved to the dojo or dijit branch.

Cheers,
PS

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[Mourouganandame Arunachalam]

Hi Peter & Reghu,

Thanks for your info.

Mourougan