On 1/27/06, Maniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote an article about him evaluating web frameworks
> (http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=146149). Some things
> he dislike about Django are being fixed in the upcoming World Happiness
> Branch (I mean 'magic removal' :-) ).
Thanks for pointing this out! It'd be great if as many Django users as
possible posted comments there supporting the framework and pointing
out magic-removal. Let's get organized.
> I always thought that the very feature of Django's template system is
> that it intended to contain no remotely complicated code and it's not
> like PHP...
Yeah, I posted a comment there to answer Guido's concern:
Regarding Django's template language not being Pythonic: Being
Pythonic wasn't a
goal. We wrote that template system with the design decision that
non-programmers
(i.e., Web designers who know HTML and don't know Python) should
be able to use it.
This has proved to be a great strategy, because we've had entire,
complex sites built
using Django templates by designers who don't know Python. Examples:
visitlawrence.com, kkcscountry.com, ljworld.com.
The way I see it, it's more acceptable to give programmers a
negligible learning curve
for learning template languages, than to give Web designers the
learning curve of
learning a programming language. Not to mention the security
implications of allowing
pure Python code in templates.
The Ruby on Rails people are realizing this, and they've made a
template language
that closely mirrors Django's: http://home.leetsoft.com/liquid/
Adrian
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Adrian Holovaty
holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org
