Posts Tagged ‘dojox.gfx’

Introducing DojoX DataChart

Monday, March 30th, 2009

The latest addition in the Dojo 1.3 release is the new dojox.charting class, DataChart. Its primary purpose is to make connecting a chart to a Data Store a simple process. There are also other benefits with DataChart: less parameters are needed to create a basic chart, and more defaults and convenience methods get you up and running quickly with Dojox Charting.

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Custom fonts with dojox.gfx

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Recently, there’s been a spat of editorials regarding custom fonts for the web—with two competing proposals (Microsoft’s EOT and embedding a TrueType font directly with the @font-face directive), as well as the well known Fahrner Image Replacement technique, and the related sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) technique.

I’m pleased to announce yet another technique: rendering SVG font definitions using dojox.gfx, coming in the Dojo Toolkit 1.2 release!

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