I'm actually building a CMS presentation layer at the very moment that does this (though using a different templating engine). The app will ship with a default set of templates, and then users will be able to override them with different stuff if they need to. The most common requests have been for different navigation formats. Bar with JS dropdowns, tabs with a vertical menu bar, page-specific context menus, etc. You could probably do all that by reading out the menu content from the DOM and rerendering it as needed, but that's a huge pain to make it work across browsers. By letting the menu get formatted based on custom templates, you can set up whatever structure you need based on the site's menu hierarchy.
Basically it saves me from having to build customized layouts for every single client. I can just build some base widgets that they can assemble as they see fit, or they can build their own widgets. cheers, barneyb On 11/17/05, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can only do presentation stuff with CSS, you can't manipulate the > > document structure. In general, CSS is enough, but not always. > > Excuse my thick skull, but what is a real world example where you'd want > to let your users manipulate the document structure? > > --------------- > > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:224574 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
