I thought I'd share a bookmarklet I just threw together which has come in quite handy: ReCSS. It reloads all the stylesheets pulled in via links by adding a query string argument to the end of the URL. Quite handy for applying CSS tweaks to dynamic apps. Update Now with Safari support.

Just a little tidbit I figured out today when I had to create a custom build. Rather than creating a custom profile that has all your dependencies, create a file in src that has the dependencies and then point your profile to that file. It makes things a whole lot easier. You like examples? I thought so. Setup src/myApp/MyApp.js

// so dojo knows where to look for myApp requires
dojo.setModulePrefix('myApp', 'src/myApp');

dojo.require('dojo.lang');
dojo.require('dojo.io.*');
dojo.require('dojo.html');
dojo.require('myApp.foo');

I just landed a big reorg of dojo.lang and dojo.string since they were huge. You can get all the gory details on my mailing list post. The low down:

We've gone ahead and made the dojo.transport bind argument off by default. You can turn it on for bind calls individually like so:

dojo.io.bind({
  sendTransport: true,
  url: '...', // etc...
});

Or globally via djConfig:

djConfig.ioSendTransport = true;

With regard to FormBind, you'd specify that one of two ways:

// at declaration
new dojo.io.FormBind({
  formNode: 'myForm',
  sendTransport: true
});

// later on

While many of you are using Dojo to create high-powered, dynamic applications, I often find myself "sprinkling" Dojo here and there to improve the user experience on "normal" web pages. It is with that in mind that I present to you dojo.io.FormBind. FormBind allows you to quickly setup your "Web 1.0" form for asynchronous submission. How do you do it? Easy:

function magicForm() {
  var x = dojo.io.FormBind({
    // reference your form
    formNode: document.forms[1],

Now that Firefox 1.5 has made the JavaScript Console an all-purpose console, I've found an alternative — Console². If Mozilla would roll this into the source as the default console, I'd be a very happy camper.

UPDATE For your convenience, I've uploaded the scripts and alternate icon so you can download them yourself. This week, Mozilla released the much-anticipated Firefox 1.5 upgrade. While I'd love to start playing with the new features (SVG, fast forward and back, etc. etc. etc.), I need to be able to test in Firefox 1.0.x. Enter MOZ_NO_REMOTE.

Our very own Alex Russell has been interviewed by the good guys over at Ajaxian (available via podcast and mp3).

The weekly status update is available. The big items:

• WYSIWYG
• Drag and drop goodness
• Push to 0.1

Yay!