On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Adam Cameron <[email protected]>wrote:

> Any "enhancement" to the language that the
> third-party engines make are inappropriate. Enhancements at the
> application server level are fine, but "enhancements" to the language
> are bad.
>

You are of course entitled to your opinion, but I completely disagree. If we
wait solely on Adobe to push things forward we wouldn't have several of the
very compelling things that are in OpenBD.


> It might be more fun to develop the "wouldn't it be neat if..." tags /
> functions, but ultimately any deviation from the core language


Ugh. I should quit while I'm ahead, but ... this is much ado about nothing.
"Core language" is a huge pandora's box in and of itself, and if the CFML
committee would release the work that was done before it totally stalled
out, you'd probably be surprised at the limited subset of CFML that the
committee agreed up on as "core."

Typically people will pick an engine on a project-by-project basis, or if
they're writing something that will run on all three engines, it isn't that
hard. Mach-II runs on all three engines with no modifications, as does a
rather complex app like Mura CMS. And again if you saw what the CFML
committee considers to be core to the language, as long as people write to
that core, the code will run anywhere. It's really not a huge concern.

Bottom line, yes, Adobe CF is the standard. Has been and always will be. But
OpenBD is about so much more than "me too," so we add functionality that
makes sense to us where we see fit but always have an eye on compatibility.

I am surprised you think this is the sort of thing someone should have
> to request.  It's core functionality of the tag.  But yeah, noted.
>

Core to the *tag*? Not really, it's just a display thing IMO. I personally
don't ever use the expand/collapse stuff anyway so I had no idea it wasn't
there until you mentioned it.

Appreciate you submitting a ticket for it.
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