> In my opinion, ClearSilver was one of the more under-rated template > technologies.
I think templating engines are really a matter of taste (or distaste ;) I worked with one of the developers of ClearSilver, Paul Clegg, but nonetheless my company decided not to use it in favor of Cheetah. These were the reasons I forwarded: 1. Serializing all of your data to some resource file format is silly and wasteful when Python is on both sides. It's better to just put all the data in a dict or something similarly simple and just pass the dict. ClearSilver makes more sense when your backend is written in C. 2. I know that some Web development teams have GUI guys that are completely in charge of the templates. That's cool. However, I've never worked at such a company. In every company I've worked for, the GUI guys give me a template and then I'm in charge of it. Since I'm in charge of it, I'm not afraid of using something like Cheetah. I *already know* Python, so learning Cheetah is trivial. Furthermore, I'm a "big boy" which means I'm capable of leaving the business logic mostly out of the view. On the other hand, I do use Cheetah to viciously cut down on HTML duplication. Just because it's HTML doesn't mean it's a good idea to duplicate stuff all over the place! Anyway, that's my $0.02. Happy Hacking, -jj -- I have decided to switch to Gmail, but messages to my Yahoo account will still get through. _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
