"Sam Tregar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Marina Hauptman wrote: > > > Why would anyone want to program Java the Perl way anymore than to program > > Perl the Java way? > > Oh, don't worry - if no Java programmers want to use HTML::Template then > it just won't be written! Open source programming is generally free of > products that have absolutely no utility since they usually have to be > useful to at least one person to be writeen in the first place.
hmm, am i the only one here thinking that HTML::Template's next language implementation platform ought to be JavaSCRIPT, rather than Java? I know it sounds odd, but there have been a few times i considered trying this (usually right after an HTML designer gave me an HTML file that I needed to turn into an HTML::Template...). If the designer could have added their *own* "preview data" (in embedded javascript variables) and HTML-Template.js could have been invoked to rewrite the HTML into the browser, they would not need perl scripts or web servers to deliver me completed HTML::Template templates! They could "animate" their designs with varying lengths of sample text, tmpl_loops to adjaust their tables so that they look good with either 1 or 100 table rows! And they could do all that with just Netscape or IE, on their Mac, PC or Linux (yeah right) box, even if it's a laptop, and they're commuting! no need for server. no need for perl. regex support is already built into the Javascript interpreter... </dream> -dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
