Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-07 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 06.02.2010, 21:56 Uhr, schrieb Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com: You aren't ever going to get ZSQL migrated to use ZPT. ZPT is a really poor fit for non-markup templates like SQL. Folks writing modern apps tend to favor non-dynamic SQL anyway (using placeholder variables) and so would

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 17:16, Charlie Clark charlie.cl...@clark-consulting.eu wrote: 1) Move to a more recent version of HTML (HTML 5 without the new tags), CSS 2.1 based layout and iFrames for containment and use ZPT instead of DTML I would claim that's several steps by itself. ;) 2)

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-07 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 07.02.2010, 17:57 Uhr, schrieb Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com: I would claim that's several steps by itself. You're right, of course: but they are related: 1. implement design in HTML 5; 2. Minimal styling in CSS 2.1; 3. Migrate DTML to ZPT 2) Replace frames with aysnchronous

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-07 Thread Andreas Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Clark wrote: Am 06.02.2010, 21:56 Uhr, schrieb Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com: You aren't ever going to get ZSQL migrated to use ZPT. ZPT is a really poor fit for non-markup templates like SQL. Folks writing modern apps tend to

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-07 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 06.02.2010, 17:32 Uhr, schrieb Martin Aspeli optilude+li...@gmail.com: If the reason is entirely aesthetic, please consider that there is a ton of documentation out there, including books in print, which refers to the existing UI that's been in place for years and years. Changing it purely

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-07 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 07.02.2010, 18:21 Uhr, schrieb Andreas Jung li...@zopyx.com: Why do you want to write new apps on top of ZSQL? The only thing that is more disgusting than writing SQL code is generating SQL code with DTML. Sorry, but we are in the ORM world and using SQLAlchemy friends is the much nicer

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-07 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Jung wrote: Charlie Clark wrote: Am 06.02.2010, 21:56 Uhr, schrieb Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com: You aren't ever going to get ZSQL migrated to use ZPT. ZPT is a really poor fit for non-markup templates like SQL. Folks writing

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-06 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 05.02.2010, 15:43 Uhr, schrieb Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com: Well, getting and iframe implementation with some really nice looking CSS would be cool, indeed. I don't even think you need to get rid of DTML for that. I'd prefer to do without frames altogether and, to be honest, I don't

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-06 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 05.02.2010, 19:29 Uhr, schrieb Roberto Allende ro...@menttes.com: Regarding DTML... i wonder if it dtml purpose doesn't overlap with tal/metal or even viewlets. If that's the case we wouldn't provide 'One-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it' and for non Dutch newbies is kinda

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-06 Thread Matthew Wilkes
On 2010-02-06, at 1257, Charlie Clark wrote: Migrating from DTML to ZPT would add weight to the dog food argument and should be fairly straightforward. ZPT came on the scene shortly after I started playing with Zope and is one of the biggest reasons for me sticking with it. The ZMI is

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-06 Thread Yusei TAHARA
Hello, On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:29:03 -0300 Roberto Allende ro...@menttes.com wrote: (snip) Regarding DTML... i wonder if it dtml purpose doesn't overlap with tal/metal or even viewlets. If that's the case we wouldn't provide 'One-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it' and for non

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-06 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 06.02.2010, 15:21 Uhr, schrieb Matthew Wilkes matt...@matthewwilkes.co.uk: It seems like a lot of work for no gain. I can think of a couple of examples where DTML templates are monkey-patched in Plone and none of those are anything particularly vital. DTML works for the ZMI, new

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Aspeli
Charlie Clark wrote: Am 06.02.2010, 15:21 Uhr, schrieb Matthew Wilkes matt...@matthewwilkes.co.uk: It seems like a lot of work for no gain. I can think of a couple of examples where DTML templates are monkey-patched in Plone and none of those are anything particularly vital. DTML works for

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-06 Thread Roberto Allende
Matthew Wilkes wrote: On 2010-02-06, at 1257, Charlie Clark wrote: Migrating from DTML to ZPT would add weight to the dog food argument and should be fairly straightforward. ZPT came on the scene shortly after I started playing with Zope and is one of the biggest reasons for me

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-06 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Clark wrote: Am 05.02.2010, 19:29 Uhr, schrieb Roberto Allende ro...@menttes.com: Regarding DTML... i wonder if it dtml purpose doesn't overlap with tal/metal or even viewlets. If that's the case we wouldn't provide 'One-- and preferably

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-05 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 14:48, Charlie Clark charlie.cl...@clark-consulting.eu wrote: This is something I would like to contribute to as it matches my skillset and interests pretty well. From the responses so far it seems that most people are so used to the ZMI that no change feels necessary

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-05 Thread Roberto Allende
Lennart Regebro wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 14:48, Charlie Clark charlie.cl...@clark-consulting.eu wrote: This is something I would like to contribute to as it matches my skillset and interests pretty well. From the responses so far it seems that most people are so used to the ZMI that no

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-05 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Allende wrote: Regarding DTML... i wonder if it dtml purpose doesn't overlap with tal/metal or even viewlets. If that's the case we wouldn't provide 'One-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it' and for non Dutch newbies :P is

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-04 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 04:59, Roberto Allende ro...@menttes.com wrote: Probably at this point of the conversation is the right moment to ask if it would make sense to improve Zope2's ZMI, removing frames and perhaps DTML code and probably removing all the dtml from zope2. I think it works just

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-04 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 04.02.2010, 13:13 Uhr, schrieb Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com: I think perhaps Robert meant to say that Zope2 would[ no longer use DTML for any part of the ZMI, rather than removing the code which allows users applications to use DTML. This is something I would like to contribute to as

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Clark
On 2010-02-04, Charlie Clark charlie.cl...@clark-consulting.eu wrote: Am 04.02.2010, 13:13 Uhr, schrieb Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com: I think perhaps Robert meant to say that Zope2 would[ no longer use DTML for any part of the ZMI, rather than removing the code which allows users

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-04 Thread Christian Theune
On 02/04/2010 10:35 PM, Alex Clark wrote: On 2010-02-04, Charlie Clark charlie.cl...@clark-consulting.eu wrote: Am 04.02.2010, 13:13 Uhr, schrieb Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com: I think perhaps Robert meant to say that Zope2 would[ no longer use DTML for any part of the ZMI, rather than

[Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-03 Thread Tom Gross
Hi all, with HTML5 the frame-elements will die. It will probably take some years before the browser-support of HTML4 will stop, but still. Are there any alternative implementations for the Zope2-ZMI? There is a package zmi.core in the Zope-svn, but except some links to other packages there is

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-03 Thread Andreas Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Gross wrote: Hi all, with HTML5 the frame-elements will die. It will probably take some years before the browser-support of HTML4 will stop, but still. Are there any alternative implementations for the Zope2-ZMI? Get the frame-less ZMI by

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-03 Thread Matthew Wilkes
with HTML5 the frame-elements will die. It will probably take some years before the browser-support of HTML4 will stop, but still. Are there any alternative implementations for the Zope2-ZMI? This is such a minor thing that if we do ever get to a stage where we're having to get rid of the

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-03 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Tom Gross itconse...@gmail.com wrote:  with HTML5 the frame-elements will die. It will probably take some years before the browser-support of HTML4 will stop, but still. Are there any alternative implementations for the Zope2-ZMI? I'd very much expect the

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-03 Thread Christian Theune
On 02/03/2010 02:45 PM, Hanno Schlichting wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Tom Gross itconse...@gmail.com wrote: with HTML5 the frame-elements will die. It will probably take some years before the browser-support of HTML4 will stop, but still. Are there any alternative implementations

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-03 Thread Yusei TAHARA
Hi, On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:20:08 +0100 Tom Gross itconse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, with HTML5 the frame-elements will die. It will probably take some years before the browser-support of HTML4 will stop, but still. Are there any alternative implementations for the Zope2-ZMI? There is

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-03 Thread Roberto Allende
Hanno Schlichting wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Tom Gross itconse...@gmail.com wrote: with HTML5 the frame-elements will die. It will probably take some years before the browser-support of HTML4 will stop, but still. Are there any alternative implementations for the Zope2-ZMI? I'd

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

2010-02-03 Thread Yusei TAHARA
Hi, On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:59:52 -0300 Roberto Allende ro...@menttes.com wrote: (snip) Probably at this point of the conversation is the right moment to ask if it would make sense to improve Zope2's ZMI, removing frames and perhaps DTML code and probably removing all the dtml from zope2.