Hmm interesting! This I'm not familiar with - I'll give it a whirl
tomorow.
Cheers, Derek
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On 27 Nov 2008, at 22:11, "Derek Chen-Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I thought that S.attr could already be used to get the attributes on
> a tag. Am I misunderstanding what you're getting at?
>
> Derek
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> Im currently re-designing the whole bloglite publishing engine im
> writing and one of the things im considering is how I could possible
> extend lifts tagging mechanism so that users could decide on there own
> dynamic content, rather than just have textile based articles.
>
> For instance, a list of latest blogs on the home page of a site: this
> might be a mixture of static content, and then the dynamic list of
> course. My original plan was to provide a bunch of default snippets;
> stuff like "list all the child pages of this page" type thing, but im
> pretty sure that simply wont be flexible enough.
>
> I know its very JSP like, but it does seem like we could add on
> functionality for things such as deciding how many items should be
> within a list. The programmer builds his app to say "heres a list of
> articles", but surley, its up to the designer to decide how many
> should be displayed on that page?
>
> given this snippet:
>
> class Articles {
> def list(max: Int) = {
> ... // fetch articles
> }
> }
>
> that it would then be sensible for the designer to be able to do:
>
> <lift:articles.list max="5" />
>
> What is the feeling on this type of thing? I appreciate this could
> well be abused, but right now it strikes me that there are lots of
> situations where the designer doesnt have quite enough control over
> the (presentation) logic without coding scala (altering the snippet)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> >
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