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Dojo namespacing with dojango
This article describes, how you can create your own dojo namespace within a reusable django application when using dojango. It should give you an idea, where you place your javascript files and how you could structure your dojo namespace directory. When using dojango, where you are able to switch the source of dojo (a remote CDN or a local version), there are several things to consider when creating your own namespace. (more…)
September 7, 2008
Optimizing visual identities, an introduction to CSS variables
A few months ago, Daniel Glazman and David Hyatt have written a proposal for CSS variables. This is a great step forward and hopefully we will find cross browser implementations some time soon.
In this article I will show how you can use CSS variables to optimize CSS. In the second part of this series you will learn how to use CSS variables efficiently in themeing applications (using the Dijit themes of the Dojo toolkit) and in the last part we will take a look how we can deal with all the new technology and convert it into a cross-browser solution with the help of a little bit of server-side magic.
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