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[Chris Mitchell]

Is this a dup of 8805?

[Chris Mitchell]

if a dup of #8805, how difficult to address issues of 8805 using this patch by 5pm 5/6/2011? Can't tell, since there is no patch here.

[Chris Mitchell]

is this localized and accessible?

[David Schwartz]

It is accessible and I believe localized; will confirm that latter.

[Adam Peller]

unrelated to #8805. a11y and i18n are helpful, but not a requirement for DojoX. There is a11y and i18n code present in the patch. I will review by the end of the week.

[Adam Peller]

from Siqi Zhong (IBM, CCLA)

[siqi]

Replying to chrism:

is this localized and accessible?

Yes, it is localized and accessible.

[Chris Mitchell]

the dojox.messaging namespace used seems too broad. maybe dojox.widgets.MessageBox? instead, since that would be consistent dumping ground for other misc widgets like this? In the future, dojox.widgets needs to be split out into separate projects/packages, but we're not there yet.

[siqi]

Replying to chrism:

the dojox.messaging namespace used seems too broad. maybe dojox.widgets.MessageBox? instead, since that would be consistent dumping ground for other misc widgets like this? In the future, dojox.widgets needs to be split out into separate projects/packages, but we're not there yet.

Hi chris, currently we put it in dojox.messaging rather than dojox.widgets because we'd like to contribute some other new 'message widgets' such as MessageDialog? in the future. I think it's ok to move it to dojox.widgets. :-)

[Adam Peller]

New subprojects require careful consideration with a proposal to the dojox project leads, in addition to the normal code contribution. "Messaging" sounds a lot like a networking protocol, which could be confusing. I agree that it's best left in dojox.widget, for now (admittedly, a project without a very clear purpose... more of a catch-all for widgets) I'm hoping this all gets fixed soon when we reorganize dojox.

[bill]

I had the same concerns about the package. Besides MessageBox/MessageDialog, do you have other related widgets that you plan to contribute? [For example] is this part of a larger project for widgets needed to build an IDE?

[David Schwartz]

We'll be working on enhancements to dojox.widget.Toaster which would probably make sense to have in this package. Thoughts?

[Adam Peller]

right now, pretty much everything dijit._Widget-based is in dojox/widget, with the exceptions being form- and layout-based widgets, which sort of mirrors the dijit architecture. So far, widgets have not been classified by use. Rather than starting to do that now piecemeal, I think it might be better to do in the next re-org, whenever that happens.

[Adam Peller]

from Siqi Zhong (IBM, CCLA)

[Kitson Kelly]

We are no longer accepting additions to DojoX. If there is a desire for this, it should be setup as a community package and made available on ​http://packages.dojofoundation.org/.