On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Todd Finney wrote:
> Managing the site in a different way would be pretty great,
> but we've been asked to do something fairly complicated
> (this borders thingy) on very short time. We were looking
> for a way to do only templating, and leave (essentially)
> everything else on the site alone. There's interest in
> moving to a different system at some point in the future,
> but we just can't get it done now.
AxKit makes site development really quick, but only if you understand "The
XML Way"... So I totally see where you're coming from.
> >I also think Mason can do what you're after.
>
> Almost, but we still have a couple of concerns about
> it. First, it would mean that we'd have to update all the
> cgis to not use CGI.pm for form argument handling.
I doubt thats true - CGI.pm just gets its input from the querystring or
STDIN, so it should be able to intercept that in time, I think.
> Second,
> we need to be able to do per-user templates, which I don't
> believe it can do (can AxKit do that?).
Well I'm not sure exactly *how* per-user you want it. For example is that
1000 users and 1000 templates? But yes, it can certainly do custom
templates on a per-request basis. Thats a very basic requirement. Just use
named templates and a StyleChooser module of your making.
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