In general, the information at http://wiki.github.com/dpp/liftweb is up to date. The stuff on wiki.liftweb.net is many years out of date and mostly refers to pre-1.0 Lift. We had a project to migrate the content, but it foundered... :-(
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:41 AM, jhonig <j...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am starting to experiment with lift, and don't seem to be able to > make a lot of progress, even for the simplest things. Obviously, > learning a new platform takes some effort, but I really think there is > a documentation problem. > Or maybe I just didn't find the proper documents. > > - It is very difficult to get the picture at a high level > - There's a lot of conflicting information floating around. > > To given an example: I tried to make templates with a single bind > point and with multiple bind points. However, > the bind-at I found at > http://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/LiftTags#with-param.2Fbind-at > didn't seem to do anything. > Then tried the with-param (which you're advised not to use, but at > least it worked). Also, the wiki doesn't specify the "at" attribute > while the book does. > > Another problem with the version using "with-param" to bind was that > head-merging didn't work. Again, I found conflicting information > about the exact way to do it, e.g., a "lift:tohead" element that I > couldn't find in other references. When I used to single bind version > of "surround" with the "at" attribute, head-merging worked fine. But > actually, that version *is not document in the wiki*!!! > > But again, it's the lack of a global picture that is the main > problem. I still haven't found a way to make some simple > rather static pages that refer to each other. Guess I should make a > user menu (from the Boot class I found), but I can't even find the > User object in the apidocs. > > Concluding, my question is really: where can I find a high level > description of the Lift platform...? The book is not high level, > IMHO, it lacks the architecture description. > > Help to get some references.... > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
