dojo.parser.parse(document.body, {scope:”mynamespace”});

Declarative styles are very useful for prototyping, there’s no doubt about it, but, and there is a but, moving to the procedural style is painful, primarily because of how procedurally-anemic the docs are.

How do you customise the namespace, i.e. change data-dojo-* to data-mynamespace-*?

So instead of littering my markup with data-dojo-this data-dojo-that I can have my own namespace? If you tell me there is one line of code to this across the entire application I’ll maybe change my opinion and even be impressed.

How do you customise the names

I’m not sure why you’re so filled with hate, we’re simply following the
HTML5 spec and their specific recommendation, namely:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/global-attributes.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-attributes

“JavaScript libraries may use the custom data attributes, as they are
considered to be part of the page on which they are used. Authors of
libraries that are reused by many authors are encouraged to include
their name in the attribute names, to reduce the risk of clashes. Where
it makes sense, library authors are also encouraged to make the exact
name used in the attribute names customizable, so that libraries whose
authors unknowingly picked the same name can be used on the same page,
and so that multiple versions of a particular library can be used on the
same page even when those versions are not mutually compatible.

For example, a library called “DoQuery” could use attribute names like
data-doquery-range, and a library called “jJo” could use attributes
names like data-jjo-range. The jJo library could also provide an API to
set which prefix to use (e.g. J.setDataPrefix(‘j2′), making the
attributes have names like data-j2-range).”

I hope that makes sense. You might find http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2012/01/19/html5-data-dojo-attribute-support/ informative as well.

I don’t want my markup littered, and that’s what it is, litter, rubbish, dirt, littered with vendor specific markup.

If it was data-config I think I’d be ok with that, but I still don’t want my markup littered with that nonsense.

I hate dojo like a passion.

It’s great that you have updated the tutorials. Good work !