I agree with Eric and my experiences back it up. Most of the people
who want to custom form widgets are the ones who are unprepared to dig
into Django/Python code. The easier we can make creating/extending
form widgets the better.

This looks like what I'll be sprinting on at DjangoCon. :)

Danny

On Jul 11, 1:14 pm, "flo...@gmail.com" <flo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm glad to see that some serious thought is going into this issue!
> This proposal sound very good (to me, at least) on the whole.
>
> One thing that occurs to me, though, is that the people who are going
> to want to customize form output are very frequently going to be the
> people working mostly in the templates: the designers. It looks like
> you're not fully settled on the interface, but I think that exposing
> it on the form class like as_* means that it's going to be difficult
> for designers to customize that output.
>
> It seems to me that one way to give designers the ability to customize
> that output is to move some of that output logic out of Python and
> into templates.  Widgets could load up a template from a well-known
> location--something like e.g. django/widgets/textarea.html--and then
> template authors could customize that by providing their own template
> in that same path.  There would be some issues to sort out there, like
> the fact that Django would have to install some implicit Django-
> provided template directory at the end of TEMPLATE_DIRS, but I don't
> think that's too onerous.
>
> I'm not 100% sure that that's the answer, but whatever the answer is,
> I think it's important to note that the target audience for
> customizing form output isn't always going to be the Python
> programmer.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric Florenzano

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