On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Charles F. Munat c...@munat.com wrote:
Yeah, the whole thing is kind of a joke.
Long ago we should have abandoned HTML for XML. The server should send
the content (data) in one file with full semantic markup. Another file
should contain a stylesheet that
Oh, it's a pretty vision. The part that's missing, though, is the part
where we get there from here. Still working on that part...
Chas.
David Pollak wrote:
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Charles F. Munat c...@munat.com
mailto:c...@munat.com wrote:
Yeah, the whole thing is
I'm on board with this vision as well.
In my current java framework I do 2 distinct passes against any url.
the first pass connects a url to a data model
packageMap ^/sports/video/(.*)/sports/video/doc.xml
(this is Groovy by the way)
That is an xml file that expands into a larger
Check out my article on lifts view binding here: http://is.gd/sfyT
Should answer most of your questions :-)
Cheers, Tim
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On 6 May 2009, at 16:11, Aaron aarondh...@gmail.com wrote:
So far I'm impressed with Lift and have gone through the toy-app stage
of experimenting. I
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Aaron aarondh...@gmail.com wrote:
So far I'm impressed with Lift and have gone through the toy-app stage
of experimenting. I have my own framework in production powering large
scale sites like http://www.comcast.net and real experience with
Django.
I'm a
Aaron,
Short answer: Lift's templating makes it nearly impossible to put business
logic into the view, but it is possible to put view logic into your Scala
code. Using Lift's bind'ing mechanism, it's possible to completely separate
the view logic from the business logic.
Longer answer:
Lift's
Thanks,
I missed the power of the passing the binding back and forth for the
snippet. This gives me something to chew on.
I understand the bit about 'html not being presentation', that is
becoming more prevalent these days.
So the convention about not putting logic in the template is more
Yeah, the whole thing is kind of a joke.
Long ago we should have abandoned HTML for XML. The server should send
the content (data) in one file with full semantic markup. Another file
should contain a stylesheet that controls full page layout, plus vector
graphics and raster images with
