dijit.Calendar

• The previously available widget dijit._Calendar was promoted to a public object and therefore renamed from dijit._Calendar to dijit.Calendar.
• Calendar standalone widget now supports accessibility with ARIA and keyboard. Users can select a date in the calendar using arrow keys, and page-down/up for month navigation. There is also a dropdown at the month label to change the month. DateTextBox still relies on the input control for a11y and does not transfer focus to the calendar popup.
• See also dijit.Calendar

dijit.Editor

• The RTE has had numerous bug fixes applied to it as well as some code cleanup to make it more extensible and better behaving on browsers such as Opera. It also had several new plugin modules added to dijit, as well as several new ones added to DojoX. For information on the DojoX modules, see the DojoX section of these release notes.
  • Updated Plugins
    • LinkDialog: The plugin that provides the dialog support for insert image and insert link have been considerably updated. Input is better validated, invalid values will disable set, and it will auto-append http:// if it believes you have typed only part of a url.
  • New Plugins
    • FullScreen: A plugin that adds the capability to the editor to take over the complete viewport containing the page running the editor.
    • ViewSource: A plugin that lets you toggle the editor view between HTML source and RTE modes.
    • Print: A plugin that lets you print the contents of the editor frame.
    • NewPage: A plugin that lets you clear the content of the editor and set a new default content with a button click.
• In addition to the new plugins, the editor icons have all been updated! They are much cleaner and professional.
• See also dijit.Editor

dijit.Dialog

• Multiple dialogs can now be shown (with one dialog launching over another).
• Dialog supports aria-describedby to make it more accessible to screen readers.
• Dialog now hides via display: none rather than using visibility and positioning. While this should not cause problems within Dijit itself, it is possible it may lead to surprises in any custom code that may have relied on computed position of elements within a hidden Dialog.
• See also dijit.Dialog

dijit.Menu

• Sliding the mouse diagonally from a vertical menu to a second vertical menu will no longer close the second menu if the mouse temporarily moves off of both menus. (This happens when the MenuItem in the second menu is below the bottom of the first Menu.) ( (#6773)
• See also dijit.Menu

dijit.TitlePane

• toggleable attribute to control whether or not user can close the TitlePane. Useful for non-closable TitlePane's in a app that match the styling of the other TitlePanes (and other dijit components)
• tooltip attribute to control tooltip on title bar
• See also dijit.TitlePane

dijit.Tooltip

• addTarget()/removeTarget() methods to dynamically attach/detach the tooltip from various nodes.
• See also dijit.Tooltip

dijit.Tree

• dijit._tree.dndSource moved to dijit.tree.dndSource (since it's supposed to be used publicly)
• Lots of cleanup and bug fixes around DnD related code
• Multi-character search. Typing "al" will jump directly to first node starting with "al".
• new Path and selectedItem attributes to get/set the current tree item (#9339)
• Multi-parented items support. Tree can support items with multiple parents, as long as this doesn't cause a loop. (#9361)
• Deferred child load option on TreeStoreModel. Option added to deferring calling loadItem() on a data store item until its children need to be read. Performance boost for JsonRestStore. (#9575)
• getTooltip() method can set tooltip on each tree node
• onLoad() event when tree is fully loaded
• autoExpand=true flag to initially expand all nodes in the tree
• ability to add a CSS class to the root node of a tree item.
• See also dijit.Tree

dijit.layout.TabContainer / dijit.layout.AccordionContainer

• scrolling tab labels now supported (like on Firefox etc.) so that labels don't spill over to two rows when there isn't enough space
• tab labels / pane titles can be changed via pane.attr('title', ...)
• icons added, controlled via iconClass parameter (like for Buttons and MenuItems). To display only icons set showTitle=false.
• tooltip attribute controls tooltip on tab labels or accordion pane titles
• See also dijit.layout.TabContainer

dijit.layout.ContentPane

• ContentPane now acts as a full layout widget, calling resize() on its child widgets when (not before) it is made visible, avoiding problems with children being initialized while hidden.

• Consequently ContentPane now defines isContainer and isLayoutContainer:

  • isContainer's meaning was widened to include any widget that calls startup() on its children, not just widgets that extend dijit._Container
  • isLayoutContainer's meaning was widened to include any widget that calls resize() on its children, not just widgets that extend dijit.layout._LayoutContainer

• Fixes related to resizing and href loading, including avoiding premature href loading for ContentPanes in nested TabContainers

• See also dijit.layout.ContentPane

onChange event handling

Most dijit.form widgets fire the onChange event after a value change has been detected. With some widgets, this event fired synchronously before the attr('value',val) returned, while on other widgets, the event was asynchronous. In order to return control to the browser's UI thread sooner, and also to collapse onChange events that fire faster than the user handler can execute, the events will always fire asynchronously now, and consecutive, unprocessed onChange events will be collapsed into single events. User code that assumed onChange would always fire synchronously after a value change will have to be modified.

attr("value", val, false)

attr() (as a setter) has been enhanced to take optional arguments. The most common case for this is attr("value", val, false) which sets the value of a form widget without calling onChange(). (The third argument is called priorityChange.) When priorityChange is true (default), onChange() will fire only when the new value is different than the value that the previous onChange() reported.

dijit.form.Button

• Although not related to the Dojo 1.4 release per-se, note that to support IE8 all dijit.form.Button's declared in markup must have type=button (unless they are intended as submit buttons). This is to work around an IE8 problem where the parser can't distinguish between an explicit type=submit and an implicit one. (The default type for <button> tags is submit, according to the latest HTML spec.)

dijit.form.ComboButton

• A new parameter dropDownPosition was added.
• The parameter controls where the drop down appears, as usual searching a list of positions until somewhere is found where the drop down fits.
• Example: dropDownPosition="top,bottom"
• See also dijit.form.ComboButton

dijit.form.DropDownButton

• A new parameter dropDownPosition was added.
• The parameter controls where the drop down appears, as usual searching a list of positions until somewhere is found where the drop down fits.
• Example: dropDownPosition="top,bottom"
• See also dijit.form.DropDownButton

dijit.form.NumberSpinner

• The NumberSpinner widget has changed the required attribute default value from true to false to more consistently allow for unspecified values within a FORM.
• See also dijit.form.NumberSpinner

dijit.form.Select

• dojox.form.DropDownSelect has been moved to dijit.form.Select as a styled HTML <select> replacement.
• See also dijit.form.Select

dijit.form.TextBox

• selectOnClick attribute added to dijit.form.TextBox and all descendant form widgets, selecting all the text in the field just by clicking.
• This makes it easier for users to change the value: just click and type.
• See also dijit.form.TextBox

dijit._Widget

• widgets now support a subscribe/unsubscribe function - analogous to dojo.subscribe/unsubscribe which operates on the widget itself (and cleans itself up) in a similar way to _Widget.connect/disconnect.

dijit._Templated

• widgetsInTemplate widget lifecycle: lots of bug fixes around the lifecycle for widgets in templates. startup() is now called on widgets in templates when startup() is called on the main widget. Templated Layout widgets with widgets in their templates should call resize() on those widgets manually.
• templatePath has been deprecated in favor of templateString used with dojo.cache(), see above.

dijit.WidgetSet enhancements

• dijit.WidgetSet/dijit.registry now has a .length property, and new array-like functions: * toArray, * some, * every, * and map.
• forEach now returns instance for chaining.
• forEach, some, every, filter and map now accept a 'thisObj' as second or third param (after callback)

dijit.popup

dijit.popup.prepare() was renamed to moveOffScreen() for clarity about what the function actually does.

dojox.charting.DataChart

• The new DataChart simplifies the task of connecting Data Stores to a Chart.
• See also dojox.charting.DataChart

dojox.form._HasDropDown

• This widget has been moved to dijit._HasDropDown.

dojox.form._FormSelectWidget

• This widget has been moved to dijit.form._FormSelectWidget.

dojox.form.DropDownSelect

• This widget has been moved to dijit.form.Select.

dojox.form.FileUploader

• The improved FileUploader actually landed in a "dot release", 1.3.1, but 1.4 adds some bug fixes. The new FileUploader adds many features, and the display is now quite robust. The Flash uploader is now an actual Flash button with an emulated HTML style, so that it can be used in cases where it was broken before, like in scrolling boxes. The HTML uploader too has been improved so that it is not floating on the page, allowing for more complex display cases and less UI breakage.
• See also dojox.form.FileUploader

dojox.grid.DataGrid

• Screen reader support has degraded when using JAWS 10 due to a change in the way ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) has been implemented in the grid. The grid column header cells no longer get actual focus since that was preventing proper scrolling via the mouse.
• Due to this change, if focus is in a grid data cell and the user shift-tabs back to the column header, JAWS 10 will not speak the column header text. This will be fixed with the next release of JAWS and Firefox which should provide better screen reader support for ARIA enabled grids.
• See dojox.grid.DataGrid for more information.

dojox.grid.EnhancedGrid

The new Enhanced DataGrid extends the base grid in numerous useful ways.

• Nested Sort: The user can now concurrently sort on any number of columns.
• Multiple Column/Row Selection: The user can now select multiple columns or rows through swipe-select or extended selection techniques.
• Drag-drop Multiple Columns and Rows: The user can now move multiple columns or rows in the same action.
• Indirect Selection: Rather than having to manually include radio buttons and check boxes for single and multiple selection models, the Enhanced DataGrid will do it automatically in response to the inclusion of simple attribute-value pairs, e.g., indirectSelection=true, on the grid's div tag.
• Declarative Pop-up Menus: Rather than having to create and assign pop-up menus through scripts, the enhanced DataGrid allows you to specify these menus with straightforward markup.
• See also dojox.grid.EnhancedGrid

dojox.grid.TreeGrid

• dojox.grid.TreeGrid - support for collapsible rows and model-based (dijit.tree.ForestStoreModel) structure.
• See also dojox.grid.TreeGrid

(old) compat grid

• compat grid (dojox.grid.Grid) is now bundled in the dojox/grid directory as a tarball archive for those who would like to continue using the deprecated (1.1) Grid.
• dojox.grid.DataGrid is the replacement.

dojox.html.ellipsis

• The new dojox.html.ellipsis offers cross-browser support for text-overflow: ellipsis
• See also dojox.html.ellipsis

dojox.html.entities

• Adds support for encoding and unencoding HTML/XML entity characters in text.
• Also provides basic mappings of character to entity encoding for HTML and LATIN (8859-1), special characters.
• See also dojox.html.entities

dojox.html.format

• dojox.html.format is a new package which offers additional HTML helper functions for formatting HTML text.
• See also dojox.html.format

dojox.image.Lightbox

• Significant fixes and improvements in dojox.image.Lightbox. see: [17205]
• See also dojox.image.Lightbox

dojox.image.SlideShow

• Bug fixes for dojox.image.SlideShow to deal with autoLoad and autoStart issues. see [20285]
• See also dojox.image.SlideShow

dojox.image.LightboxNano

• Extended the dojox.image.LightboxNano to show more than one image with a single LBN instance.
• See also dojox.image.LightboxNano

dojox.widget.Rotator, AutoRotator and Co.

• The new dojox.widget.Rotator is a lightweight non-dijit widget that rotates through child nodes.
• The new dojox.widget.AutoRotator is a rotator which automatically transitions between child nodes.
• Both widgets have support for pan, slide, wipe, and fade transitions.
• Includes dojox.widget.rotator.Controller for manipulating a rotator.

dojox.widget.DataPresentation

• The new DataPresentation widget connects to a data store in a simple manner, and also provides some additional convenience mechanisms for connecting to common data sources without needing to explicitly construct a Dojo data store.
• The widget can then present the data in several forms: as a graphical chart, as a tabular grid, or as display panels presenting meta-data (title, creation information, etc) from the data.
• The widget can also create and manage several of these forms in one simple construction.
• Animation support. Optionally allows chart bars, columns and lines to animate into place as chart is initially being displayed.
• See also dojox.widget.DataPresentation