everything is debatable: only side thing I can argue is that helpers are objects related to markup and I do not like them mingled with logic. But that's philosophy I agree.
The main real point is that if you want to share your work with html designers, you can not use helpers at all. Your designer gives you markup and style: the more you have this separated from your logic the better integraton ease. carlo On 18 Feb, 01:58, AchipA <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the returning moments on this list is that when I say helpers > in controllers, people hear 'html in code'. The two have (almost) > nothing in common, even though it's possible to overuse/abuse helpers > (just as you can put html in strings in controllers - obviously bad). > Then again, maybe it's just me having an awkward POV on helpers :) > > My main question is - why do people consider transferring only stock > variable/list/dictionary python objects to the views 'cleaner' than > transferring any other python object to it (helper objects, or even > your own) ? Helpers create *objects* which are just data wrappers. > They are *NOT* strings and have nothing in common with HTML until the > point they get rendered. > > On Feb 18, 12:03 am, carlo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 17 Feb, 23:39, AchipA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > web2py gives quite some latitude with regard to doing things... I > > > understand there are major no-nos, but is there a best way ? We had > > > Sorry but I would be more narrow minded about this: from my point > > there *should* be never a good reason to put html in controllers: it > > makes code difficult to debug, to read and to share with designers. > > Isn't this one of the reasons for php and java servlets failure in the > > enterprise? > > > carlo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
