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Sometime ago, someone asked about smoothscroll support in dojo. While working on index list of Editor2, I found myself in the position of requiring such a mechanism, so that rather than jumping to an element, scrolling smoothly to the element gives user a better feeling of context.

Rather than implementing a widget directly, as asked for in the linked post, a dojo.lfx animation shall be created first. Although the core of the smoothScroll is simple to figure out, I had little knowledge about the dojo.lfx code base. After inspecting dojo.lfx.html.propertyAnimation and resource dojo.lfx.Animation, I got the idea of what the animation framework dojo.lfx provides.

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Anyway it should be ok now.

Here is the latest FCKeditor style toolbar package for dojo Editor2. Please follow the instructions to install it.

ChangeLog:

• Updated to latest dojo trunk format
• A new sample file which demonstrate how to use this style with Editor2 (it can be found at src/widget/templates/Editor2/test_FCKstyle.html after you unzip the package in the current dir)
• In the sample file, several plugins are enabled by default.

Some improvements are just committed to dojo Editor2 in trunk. Although dojo 0.4.1 release (which is the trunk will be) generally should not break API compatibilities, as these changes only affect the new part of the Editor2 API (compared to 0.3.1 Editor2), and which is just released with dojo 0.4.0 one week ago, so we decided that an exception can be made for the Editor2 in this case.

As dicussed in my previous blog, some significant modification are merged in with the patch. I will briefly go through the steps required to port an Editor2 plugin written for 0.4 to the latest trunk format, then state other improvements introduced with this commit.