TG2 is still using buffet at the moment, but will be moving away from it between 1.9.7 and 2.0.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Christopher Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christoph Zwerschke schrieb: >> Christopher Arndt schrieb: >>> - Should the Genshi Buffet plugin determine the doctype from the >>> template format? Should this be reported as a bug to the Genshi project? >> >> I think Genshi should never send a doctype that is incompatible with the >> format (doctype=HTML and format=XHTML or vice versa), that should really >> be fixed in Genshi. But this will not solve the problem completely, >> because you may want to use compatible, but nevertheless different >> doctype variants for your pages. > > Yes, I forgot to mention that. You might want to choose between strict > and transitional, for example. > >> Btw, this is not a problem when you're using Kid, since Kid >> automatically chooses the right doctype. Also, if you want a different >> doctype, Kid provides subvariants of format (e.g. "html-quirks" instead >> of "html") or custom serializer instances that can have any doctype in >> the format parameter, so this also works just fine with Kid. > > Yeah, thats why the problem only arises now when we are trying to get > Genshi support properly done for all corner cases. > >>> - Is there any way to pass additional options to a Buffet engine after >>> it has been instantiated, or do we need to change the Buffet API to >>> allow this? >> >> As far as I can see, there are no provisions for passing additional >> parameters at render time in Buffet, and passing such parameters would >> break existing implementations. I.e. we would need to make adaptions to >> Genshi, TurboKid, TurboCheetah, TurboJson, etc. > > Is anybody using the Buffet API except TurboGears 1.x nowadays anyway? > Except for Genshi, all of the above mentioned Buffet plugins are under > our control, so we could change them easily. We can also make our own > Genshi Buffet plugin, if we need to. > > Chris > > > > -- Mark Ramm-Christensen email: mark at compoundthinking dot com blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to turbogears-trunk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
