Docs Sprint April 8, 2011

Date: April 8, 2011
Time: 9:30am EDT - 4:30pm EDT
Coordination in the fluid-work IRC Channel

Theme: Framework

Topic Ideas

• Renderer: what's unique, how it compares to other options (Colin)

• Renderer components (Cindy)

• IoC overview (Colin)

• What is a component grade (linking page to component types)? (Mike) Component Grades

• component types/grades (see chat between Mike and Colin 12:07 ET for some info)
  • littleComponent (mike) fluid.initLittleComponent()
  • viewComponent (mike) fluid.initView()
  • eventedComponent
  • modelComponent
  • rendererComponent (Cindy)

• new defaults for grades (Anastasia) started: Component Configuration Options
  • preInitFunction
  • initFunction
  • finalInitFunction
  • argumentMap

• Event boiling Event injection and boiling (event injection already described) (Justin) almost done

• Options Merging: this page needs more information Options Merging for Infusion Components (Michelle)

• Instantiator

• createOnEvent (for some information, see the conversation in the channel on March 30 between Michelle and Yura, starting at about 11:10 CDT) (anastasia) Controlling The Timing of Subcomponent Creation

• How IoC works in fluid by example?

• A simple example on "Don't call us, we'll call you" in the FLUID framework would be nice.

• What is a 'demand' block? (we have a start at this at Demands Specifications and fluid.demands) (Harris) What is "fluid.demand()"?

• What is "default'? (we have a start at this at Fluid Component API#Options (Harris) What is "fluid.defaults()"?

• When to use fluid.function_name and when to use fluid.uploader.html5Strategy.function_name?

• If i was to start from a blank file, to create a component, is there a "hello world" code for me to look at? (we have a start at this information at Creating a Component) (heidi) in progress

• Connecting design with Infusion (Jess) Infusion + Design