The screen widget is used for every page in ecommerce. It is the Form Widget that is banned from use in ecommerce.
The reason is that visual design drives requirements in ecommerce, not so much functional design, and using the form widget just doesn't help much there, and in fact it makes incorporating custom HTML not a little bit, but MUCH more difficult (often involving rewriting the form in plain HTML/FTL).
-David On Apr 9, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Brett Palmer wrote:
I read in the emails that the ecommerce app is going to continue using Freemarker/FTL pages and not migrate to screen widgets. That isn't a concern but I was wondering the reasoning behind the decision as I work on a lot of custom applications and always use screen widgets where possible. If screen widgets can be wrapped in a container (ie div) components why is it better for customer-facing apps like ecommerce to be coded with freemarker? Thanks for your opinions. Brett
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