I did give the OO/CFC based methodology (model-glue to be specific) a go, but I came to the conclusion that this really defeats the purpose of what a web page is for. It is over complicating something that should be simple. A web page should be just that and be able to be opened in a WYSIWYG edit by a designer and edited. Putting everything into CFC's just really stops a web site being a web site any more. There is no way a designer can ever work on it unless he learns to code, it is also not very friendly toward other developers, who have to know OO and the framework before they can work on it. It really is more like software development. I got one of our developers to build a model-glue site, and then myself and one of the other developers tried to go and figure it out with no prior knowledge of model-glue, suffice to say it was very hard. And debugging is seriously time wasting trying to find out what actually caused the error, because the errors don't actually tell you. CFC's are great when used correctly, but I do not not agree with building a whole web site with CFC's, its too much obscurity.
I also noticed that model-glue runs very slow, the site we built with it takes several seconds for each page to load off the local network. Russ -----Original Message----- From: Steve Bryant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 February 2006 04:35 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: page layout: cfmodule vs customtags I like using using components for layouts as well. Even wrote an article about it. ;-) http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/154231.htm Steve >I do this in some cases and see nothing wrong with taking that >approach. It usually is in its own separate CFC just for layout purposes but not always. > >On 2/12/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> I've even started using CFCs to hold some 'pods' of content that I >> use in various places. This idea'll start a firestorm from those who >> say CFCs should never output, but they're wrong anyway. :) >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232096 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
