I’ve been playing with Dojo, specifically the rich text editor, and came across a Gotcha in setting up the whole thing, which isn’t documented too clearly. Specifically, Dojo needs its own window.onload - if you have your own window.onload (as you probably do if you need any initialisation), it will conflict with Dojo!!!

The solution is described here (though it seems Dojo changed a property name a few months ago, from baseRelativePath to baseScriptURI). This is working for me - in my HTML:

[html]

My App

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In myapp.js: [js] dojo.require(“dojo.event.*”); dojo.event.connect(window, “onload”, myappInit);

function myappInit() { alert(“Okay, here we are in the old window.onload and it’s still running :-)”); } [/js]

It might be a good idea for the Dojo crew included some explanation of this in the standard heres-how-to-setup-dojo.js-intro docs. Maybe someone with in-depth knowledge of Dojo could infer that window.onload must be used by Dojo, but the average programmer taking Dojo a spin won’t.

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Dojo. Awesome framework. Bring on the doco.