Hello,
jQuery.tmpl(), a beta feature slated for inclusion in the main jQuery
brach, uses some of the same syntax as Django in its templating
markup, which is a bit of a bummer. I'm writing to see whether you
think we should get in touch with the jQuery team to see if they could
plausibly change it.
There are, obviously, quite a lot of templating languages out there,
and some of them are bound to clash with Django, and that's not a
problem. But Django and jQuery are often deployed together (jQuery is
actually bundled with Django for use in the admin), making this clash
especially annoying.
You might think this isn't an issue since JavaScript code should be
served from static files anyway, but there's an added complication.
One of the patterns jQuery.tmpl() recommends is nesting templates
within a <script type="text/x-jquery-tmpl"> tag, relying on the fact
that <script> tags with unfamiliar type attributes are ignored by the
browser but are still accessible through the DOM. This makes jQuery
templates very convenient to embed in HTML.
It's not a huge issue, obviously. The tags can be escaped, but the
resultant markup is pretty awful:
{% open templatevariable %}if foo{% close templatevariable %}
bar
{% open templatevariable %}/if{% close templatevariable %}
rather than
{{if foo}}
bar{
{/if}
I personally would love it if jQuery adopted different syntax, and who
knows, the dev team might be amenable to it. It wouldn't be a huge
change for them. Is it worth asking? What do you think?
-- Ori
References:
http://api.jquery.com/jquery.tmpl/
https://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl
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