Comments on: Dojo and Firebug Tricks for Development

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Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:03:41 +0000

[...] a cool trick from Tom Trenka that might help you in your dojo activities. Try loading a package dynamically. You can do it [...]

By: Tom Trenka

Tom Trenka — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:54:22 +0000

Hi Frank–
Actually it’s not outdated; the example uses the dojox.xml.DomParser, which is a from-scratch JS implementation that will work in any browser that supports RegExp (all of them, now) and not the barebones dojox.xml.parser (though I will admit that having both there can be confusing).

Regards,
Tom Trenka

By: Frank Sjoukes

Frank Sjoukes — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:59:30 +0000

This was helpfull, but code is outdated.
Please update the code:
dojo.require(“dojox.xml.parser”);

var xml=”
+ ‘My first node’
+ ‘My second node’
+ ”;
var doc=dojox.xml.parser.parse(xml);
console.log(doc);
Kind regards
Frank

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:30:59 +0000

Thanks a million, Tom. With these debug tricks you made life worth living again !!

By: ttrenka

ttrenka — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:10:07 +0000

@Morgan:

I don’t think I’d want to include that in an actual build, especially given that it’s one line of code–in general, I pull that line when an app is deployed (last thing I want is for someone to be kicking in debug mode to formulate an attack on the app itself).

I find it’s simple enough to just include that in the beginning of your documents.

By: Morgan Benton

Morgan Benton — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:01:38 +0000

I like #1. I tried baking it into a custom build using the flag:

scopeDjConfig={isDebug:(window.location.search.indexOf(“debug”)>-1)}

But the build command seems to choke on the parentheses. My workaround was to add this to my dojo.js file after the build has completed. Any ideas how I might make this work? Or conversely why I wouldn’t want to use your trick in a build?

Thanks for the tip!

By: David Bolter

David Bolter — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:40:48 +0000

Awesome! I hadn’t thought of #2… great idea.

By: Ajaxian » Firebug tricks, Dojo style

Ajaxian » Firebug tricks, Dojo style — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:25:19 +0000

[...] Trenka has a nice posting on Dojo and Firebug Tricks for Development where he shares two of his [...]