Move Gears detection out of Dojo Base

[jburke]

Gears detection should be a Dojo Core module, but not part of Dojo Base. Cleared it on dojo-contributors.

[jburke]

Suggestion comes from this thread: http://www.dojotoolkit.org/forum/dojo-core-dojo-0-9/dojo-core-development-discussion/proposal-slimming-down-dojo-base

[elazutkin]

Q: does it need to be in the core in the first place? E.g., in gfx the detection code is in a file, which belongs to gfx --- if you don't use gfx, you don't pay for it, which seems to be not the case for google gears.

[jburke]

I'm all for moving it out of base. I'll ask Alex if it needs to be in base.

[jburke]

I plan on moving the gears code out of base and into a Core dojo.gears module. I floated the idea on dojo-contributors, and the response was positive. However, I really need to test the dojox.off code when I do that change. I have not used it or gears before, so I am not likely to get this done before the beta build for 1.1. It would have been nice to save some bytes for base, but it will have to wait.

[jburke]

(In [14293]) Fixes #5180: move gears detection out of Dojo Base. Now in a dojo.gears module. Tested change in FF3 with Gears, using dojox.off and dojox.storage demos. \!strict