Eitan Suez wrote:
> hi cliff,
> i understand your concern. my opinion is that this is
> not so much an issue of how you design your dynamic
> web page engine as it is an issue of the visual design
> tools being made smart enough to understand how the
> engine works.
why?
reality is - Gerald will actually read and listen to what we have
to say. my chance of getting Gerald to make a change is MUCH
greater than my chance of getting Macromedia to adjust to embperl.
especially on the issue of example text, since i do not see a good way
to parse it without embperl's help.
>
>
> you are correct that the interpretation of the statements
> needs to happen at design time in order for this to be
> of any use to web page designers who design and lay out
> the pages.
>
> that is why tools such as visual interdev, frontpage, and
> allaire's homesite build into their editors a "design"
> or "browse" tab (or both). this allows a designer to see
> exactly what the page looks like at design time (and they
> don't have to leave their authoring application to do so).
exactly!
>
>
> i would still argue that this has little to do with the
> feature i am proposing.
>
> i'd like to go a little further:
> i really believe that the design of GUI authoring tools
> and the design of a web page generation engine (such as
> embperl) should be independent of one another.
>
> gerald ought to be able to build features into embperl
> without having to think about how the gui design tool
> will look like for the web page author. likewise, the
> designer of the gui tool (say, dreamweaver) should not
> have to worry about whether a dynamic piece of text is
> written as <%text%> or as [+$text+] in order to decide
> how to display the gui widget that represents this piece
> of text on the screen.
>
> that is what dreamweaver extensions were designed to
> do: translate the text into the gui and vice versa.
can a dreamweaver extension be written taking into account
the existing embperl syntax, that allows the gui to render the page with
sample data?? if not, then your above statements are good theory, a theory
i tend to agree with, but do nothing for me in practice. the reality is, today,
my designer cannot design a good looking web page using embperl statements
within dreamweaver.
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