Dave Watts wrote: >While that may be theoretically nice, why would you have so many duplicate >links to the same thing anyway? A well-constructed site should have common, >reusable (and potentially data-driven) navigation elements. In that light, >this doesn't seem to be the huge benefit that you claim.
Dave, I'm not talking about navigation elements. I'm talking about application actions, like clicking on a product to get product details, clicking a breadcrumb link to get to that page, clicking sort in a table of data to order on that column, or any one of an unlimited number of links and forms that make up a web application that are separate from global site navigation. >If you really wanted that, you don't need circuits. All you need to do is >create a variable to store the form action attribute, right? Maybe I'm >missing something, though. There's dozens of ways to do anything in programming. The point of Fusebox is that it brings together lots and lots of these good ideas into a common framework that is easy to learn, use, and maintain. There's a whole lot of benefits to Fusebox beyond just circuits...it just so happens that circuits are what was asked about. >I'll close this by stating that I'm not against your using Fusebox, or >anyone else for that matter, but I did think it worth pointing out that a >lot of the "problems" solved by Fusebox have traditionally not really been >significant problems for lots of people. hmmm...well, that's OK. For me, problems are things like creating a sturdy architecture that consists of well-defined, encapsulated components, and building applications that are easy to maintain while incorporating a great number of best-practices. Fusebox is a great way to confront these problems, but it is not the only way. But using a standard like Fusebox makes is very easy to let others maintain the code, because they understand how it works. The danger with custom or "secret" methodologies is always the fact that before anyone can work on it they have to learn the approach used. Again, I don't think Fusebox is all-powerful...just very useful in many situations. Regards, Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
