On Jan 11, 2004, at 10:22 PM, Peter Chen wrote:
On Jan 10, 2004, at 5:12 PM, John Lawton wrote:
If you want to trap templates you can match "_tmpl.html" instead. C::A also has some design decisions that turn people off. (I like C::A)
-john
You are missing my point.
To me, ".html" indicates that it is HTML.
A template is not HTML. In my experience, a file name or a file extension should be indicative of the content and function of the file.
If you are using HTML template the your file is probably html with a few template directives. For all practical purposes its HTML.
This is something that I learned the hard way in the last 15 years. Then again, your mileage may vary.
Two reasons that I wouldn't recommend your approach:
If you are using professionals to design your pages their software may not know how to deal with your .tmpl files. If you keep it as HTML Both inDesign and DreamWeaver can handle the Template directives.
When you have hierarchy of template that generate other template files you do not want to start coming up with a bunch arbitrary file extensions. I stopped doing this when I worked on a project that had templates that generated HTML templates. I didn't want to create an additional extension to differentiate the two template files. Your system doesn't scale very well with the complexity of the problem.
One way to handle this is to add "_tmpl1.html" and "_tmpl2.html" to denote different template types. You can filter using a slightly different apache directive. You will not get "burned" if you do it this way
For reviewing modules, and deciding whether they are worth the time and effort for further investigation, I find these small details revealing regarding the amount of effort and thought or the level of software engineering discipline that were put in.
If you are concerned about the architecture of a module then look at its source. Personally as long as the module is useful and works properly I am not too concerned about how it is implemented, unless I am maintaining it.
-john
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