Somebody mentioned this to me today. Looks interesting. WIll investigate.
“#Dojo 1.5 upgrade broke a fair number of Dijits that we customized, slight HTML modifications are causing a headache.” -KJ
Dojo does have a pretty sweet widget framework. But after working with it for 2 years or so I’ve started thinking that you should never, ever, evereverever use their out of the box dijits.
- They’re hard to extend.
- The html they produce hurts my feelings.
- And even worse, the upgrades are often not backwards compatible. So you have to re-extend.
- bah.
A friend just pointed this out. Looks cool.
I am fascinated by Nicole Sullivan’s oocss project. I have been hunting for the perfect approach to CSS for years. Oocss seems like the logical successor to some of the more successful approaches I’ve come across.
However, as a philosophy it doesn’t feel quite done. I think this is mostly about words, not the actual technique. For better or worse, HTML and CSS are inextricably linked. And indeed, the docs and examples on github show you the html required to make the css work.
The name oocss implies that it’s magicer than it is. It’s, in part, a formalization of the idea that with better HTML you can write better CSS; but HTML is definitely part of the technique.
All that said, the idea that we can use a relatively small library of HTML+CSS bits to make entire sites is totally hot. Don’t think you’ve heard the last of this.
