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No. DatePickers, along with Forms, are the bane of my existence. More choices that are brought to light, the better.

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Agreed! I had no idea how many bad ones there were until I needed one for a project.

And yet you keep us in suspense...

There you go - this will make your life easier then:

http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/dijit/form.html#d...

Too bulky in my opinion. I don't need 90 percent of the things in that sdk.

so dont require them, you only use/build what you want. Its AMD and everything is nicely separated

I should add, I also feel like these big frameworks have all the components and dont do a good job of each component. I rather use something that is by itself but the author is passionate about the widget and it is the best it can be.

It should not be a matter of "feeling", but testing things out. Usually frameworks like Jquery UI, YUI, dojo toolkit do a very good job, jquery doesn't provide any widget infrastructure, but still it does a good job afaik.

I don't really like Dojo, but their system is so modular, you don't have to include 90% of stuff. Kinda like jQuery-ui, you can choose not to include all the other cruft.

Now with Dojo AMD (1.7+) it's even better and cleaner. You only require what you need and then build.

Please, never use the Dojo Toolkit. I was forced to use it on a project and working with it was reinventing the wheel while pulling out hair. It was overly complicated for something that needed to be straightforward and simple.

Amen to that. The doc for it sucks too (not that there's enough there, but most doc for it found by google et al is obsolete/deprecated. And last but not least... the plugin ecosystem for dojo sucks even worse, and whatever widgets/dijits actually exist for it, usually look like @ss. The only one who seems to be committed to dojo is...IBM.

ESRI the top worldwide provider of GIS software is also sold on Dojo and Dijits. I agree that their digits are uglier than Android Cupcake. I have had to use Dojo on several projects now and I also agree on how abysmal their docs are. They provide tiny little code snippets but aren't even clear of the context. "Ok, fine... where do I PUT this snip... isn't this a TUTORIAL???!!??" I've been much happier with the look and feel of ExtJS but its documentation is even worse.

Out of curiosity - what did you had to reinvent? The whole point is so that you could use existing components provided to you.

Amen to that

Preach!

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