On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for your long answer. > > Maybe it would a good idea to chart the specific strenghts of each > option. This would be easier for beginners to start building an > application. > > This could be: > All: Templates/Fmt, sort, count, conditionals, and many other options > when using search/list/find commands > > info vars: > + use for everything > + fast > > data vars: > + hiding data from search command > > URLs > + really fast, use for short chunks of data like dates > + save files in different folders for easy backup > > system vars: > + variables which should be available system wide > > skinvars: > + use for layout purposes > > sections: > + good for chunks of text > > Do we really need all of them? Or can we omit some?
I think we probably do need most of them. The data and info vars are both very important, for different reasons. You can't get rid of url's. System vars are few, and pretty important in their own right--but are very important for plugins and custom coding kinds of things. The skinvars could be deleted, and I'm inclined that way actually. Only it is a useful shortcut, and it does not really take up any significant processing overhead. Anchors (sections) of course, are pretty basic html, and BoltWire has good capabilities for handling them, so can't really change them either. As for the skinvars, some things will change in 3.xx.First I'm inclined to rename it code.snippets, as it better captures what they are for. Multiline vars. Second, I'll probably parse it through the site.config page first for short values, like colors, or something. Third, with the skins working differently and the farm structure set up different, it will probably have some changes to the special parameters like skinpath, and pix, etc. We'll see how that goes. We don't really need it, it's just a handy tool... Cheers, Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
