Last week I read a very interesting article on Dojo's charting library. There are some demo codes in the web page. Instead of downloading Dojo's library to my local computer web site, I choose to use CDN fashion to load Dojo library from Google's CDN. This method is called Cross Domain Resource Reference or xDomain Reference.
In this way, I don't even need a web server. I just use VI to write an HTML file with JavaScript and Dojo API calls. That's the basic of web application: HTML + JS. I dropped the HTML file to my browser (FireFox) and it worked right away.
However, for the same codes which I found them in Dojo's ToolKit web page, one of feature does not work. It is the animation of curve chart. This feature is added by calling Magnify() API function to the chart. Behind sense, animation parts are created to each point. In the Dojo's web page, the magnification works fine but not in my HTML.
I spent about one day's time finally I figured it out. What I missed is to add the following codes to the head section of HMLT:
<head>
...
<script type="text/javascript">
...
dojo.require("dojo.fx");
...
</script>
</head>
FirBug helped me to find this one out. When I checked my HTML source codes in FirBug, the script loading section shows the loaded source codes in FireBug window. However, for the xDomain reference HTML page, the source codes are partially and they are displayed as one very very long line like this:
As you can see how hard to read when I copied the codes to VI:
Fortunately, the same codes are available on DojoToolKit web page, where Dojo's library files are not xDomain references. They are in the same domain. By using FireBug to take a peek inside the web page, I found the Magnify.js source codes are in nice layout:
By the way, I also tried to get source codes directly from Google's CDN web site, for example, Dojo.xd.js. It also displayed as a very very long line. But I went to DojoToolKit's web page to load the source code from their domain, I was prompt to save or open js. The download js file is in nice layout format. Here it reveals that CDN is not only for fast downloading, the size of the file is also very small. All the unnecessary codes such as line breaks are removed!
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