Would like to give this a shot, I created a JIRA for this enhancements, I was 
wondering if someone could assign it to me (uid: ctataryn):

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3434

Craig.

On 2011-02-07, at 4:25 PM, Igor Vaynberg wrote:

> what about listviews inside listviews? what would the selectors look
> then? you would almost need "relative" selectors for it to work
> correctly and not be overly verbose.
> 
> -igor
> 
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Craig Tataryn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2011-02-07, at 3:48 PM, Igor Vaynberg wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> The way I'd see it working is like so:
>> 
>> <div id="products">
>> <ul>
>>   <li>Mock product 1</li>
>>   <li>Mock product 2</li>
>> </ul>
>> </div>
>> 
>> add(new ListView("#products ul", productList) {
>> protected void populateItem(ListItem item) {
>>        Product prod = (Product) item.getModelObject();
>>        item.add( new Label("#products ul li", prod.getName()));
>>    }
>> });
>> 
>> Hopefully you see what I mean, even if the example isn't perfect.  Probably 
>> in the case of ListViews the selector could be truncated to apply to 
>> descendants of the selector chosen for the ListView (i.e. would only need to 
>> be "li" instead of the full path)
>> 
>> Craig.
>> 
>>> -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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