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Roadmap

Submitted by bill on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 10:59.

Roadmap for Dijit 1.0

Here are some of the more important features I'm planning for upcoming releases of Dijit, hopefully all in the 1.0 release.

  • Miscellaneous widgets
    • Table widget
    • Tree - DnD
    • Editor - see below
  • Form widgets
    • Validation - form level validation so you can't submit the form until all the validation errors are fixed.
  • Styling/Themes/Usability
    • Soria theme
    • Wrap up tundra theme remaining tasks.
    • focus - customize LnF
  • General tasks
    • A11Y: Editor, Table, other remaining issues
    • I18N - any remaining issues
    • Manual

Roadmap for Dijit 1.1

Wow that's a lot of stuff for 1.0. Don't know if we can finish it all. Some might slip to 1.1, in addition to these features:

  • Miscellaneous widgets
    • Tree: DnD
  • Form widgets
    • Hints embedded in the form fields (#3286)
    • Select widget - widget w/richtext in the drop down list (no filtering by typing)
    • Repeater widget, for forms with lists
  • Layout widgets
  • Styling/Themes/Usability
    • Noir theme
    • Better popup LnF: fades, and drop shadows
  • Automated tests?   (via DOH or Selenium)

Editor Roadmap

Some of these can be deferred to 1.1 if necessary.

  • #4070: using editor as leaf in a layout widget tree (Dijit, 1.1)
  • new toolbar buttons
    • font and font size controls based on FilteringSelect (#4171) (Dijit 1.0)
    • type selection based on FilteringSelect (main heading, sub heading, paragraph) (#4173) (Dijit 1.0)
    • rtl controls: toggles a paragraph's direction from ltr to rtl (#4174) (Dijit 1.0) (Not part of default toolbar. IBM Shanghai can do this work)
    • images dialog (DojoX)
  • cut/paste context menu: need to override browser's context menu on FF so cut/paste works, so we can support undo/redo (#4175) (Dijit 1.0)
  • implement tri-state buttons in editor toolbar (won't do, because native controls only report a selection as "bold" or "not bold" even if it's half and half)
  • auto save REST style (DojoX)
  • auto save to dojox.storage (#784)(DojoX)
  • one toolbar for multiple editors (not for 1.0, maybe after, maybe never)
  • Editor inside InlineEditBox (assign to Doug to test)
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other editor topics

Submitted by peller on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 20:27.

Some features not present in today's editor. We should figure out whether we want to do these for 1.0, after 1.0, or for dijit vs. a dojox.editor project (or none of the above!)

* implement tri-state buttons in editor toolbar
* auto save REST style
* auto save to dojox.storage
* font and font size controls
* undo/redo
* text alignment
* rtl controls

more list stuff

Submitted by bill on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 15:02.

That's a good list to start with. As usual I want to be really strict with what goes into Dijit but luckily the editor has plugin capability so we can add many these features to DojoX. Some more items:

- cut/paste buttons, cut/paste menu items (buttons don't work on FF, context menu doesn't work on IE, keyboard works everywhere?)
- type selection (main heading, sub heading, paragraph)
- extraPlugins parameter in addition/alternative to plugins
- images dialog
- one toolbar for multiple editors
- floating toolbar