not sure how well this would work. looks like, at least from examples,
in lift you bind data to template, not components. like a jsp. eg you
bind a list to a set of li tags which you select via css selector. in
wicket you would bind a listview and configure it.

-igor


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Craig Tataryn <[email protected]> wrote:
> In reading the "7 reason's why Lift is so freaking awesome" article [1] one 
> thing that surprised me was Lift adopted "Designer Friendly Templates" in 
> v2.2.  I never really gave Lift a serious look because it seemed like every 
> other "hack the design" type framework.
>
> As I read more I realized they not only support normal binding as you might 
> find in Wicket (albeit a bit different in Lift), they also support binding 
> components to markup via CSS Selectors [2].  I think this would be awesome in 
> Wicket, it could literally take you to a "developer doesn't touch the 
> template" type Utopia.
>
> My questions are:
> Has this been attempted or discussed before in Wicket?
> If I were to implement this would the procedure be to add an enhancement JIRA 
> then attach the patch when I'm done?
>
> I'm assuming I'd add a new ComponentResolver to the Application's resolver 
> chain to implement this?   Found a CSS selector library I'm hoping will prove 
> good [3]
>
> Craig.
>
> [1] - http://seventhings.liftweb.net/templates
> [2] - http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/liftweb/Binding_via_CSS_Selectors
> [3] - https://github.com/chrsan/css-selectors

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