dojox.fx.NodeList-fx proposal

[dante]

the new extension setup for NodeList? is great. dojo.require("dojo.NodeList?-fx"); the root dojo.NodeList? has cool animation functions. dojo.query('.foo').fadeOut().play();

dojox.fx is a project that has extension animations.

i have created a module that adds in mappings for the dojox.fx animations to use NodeList?-fx's _anim code.

I am not technically allowed to extend dojo.NodeList? from dojox. But do not want to make aliases and extend dojo.query to dojox.query (and may not even be "allowed" to from withing the /dojox/fx/ project) so use dojox.NodeList?, etc etc ...

I am proposing a clearly marked experimental module that warns the user of cross-namespace clobbering in a dojo.experimental() as a means to provide the user a simple way to experiment.

dojo.require("dojox.fx.NodeList?-fx") would throw the warning, and dojo.extend(dojo.NodeList?,...); the biggest concern would be the doc parser mixing in the documentation for the .hightlight() .slideBy() and .sizeTo() methods into the core NodeList? class.

[Adam Peller]

Pete - IIUC this sounds like a 1.1 or 2.0 item (though neither is well-defined at this point) not an emergency fix. Can you reschedule?

[dante]

(In [11574]) fixes #4917 - this change crosses namespaces, and extends dojo.NodeList? with the dojox.fx animations .slideBy, .sizeTo, .highlight, and .fadeTo (the last just being a wrapper to dojo._fade directly). adds a pretty neat interative dojo.query() / NodeList?-fx test page, and updates all the other fx test files to demo a query animation. also some cleanups to the base animations.