On Friday 13 August 2004 09:22 am, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > We're talking web applications here that consist of a collection of web > pages. That's so simple, why overcomplicate things with a whole > templating system? If folks want to punish themselves by requiring an > ADP and Tcl page, that's fine. I certainly wouldn't encourage that > behavior ... unless someone can give me a real example with code why > it's actually superior, as opposed to "the way ACS has always done it."
You've got it backwards, that's NOT the way ACS has always done it. Previous versions of the ACS intermingled logic and presentation. Experience working with client non-programmer designers that led ArsDigita to decide to write a templating system that allows for the separation of logic and presentation. We're not the only people in the world who see value in this. You write all your web pages by hand. Fine. When I want to change the look and feel of every form in an OpenACS site, to meet the design criteria of a client, I change one file and the templating system takes care of the rest. It's a bit less work than visiting every .adp page in the system looking for form tags... -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
