Matt Feifarek wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 6:55 PM, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > FormKit is not really actively maintained either. > > Is this sort of thing passe at this point? What approach is up to date? > > > As one of the two authors of FK, I can confirm this. > > I don't know that it's passe, we are still using it extensively on past > (running) projects. In the present and the future, I have invested time > using ToscaWidgets with FormEncode in Pylons. > > I had integrated FK into Pylons, and it worked fine; I was hoping that > TW would bring lots of great widgets from a larger widget library, > including client-side framework integration and stuff like that. > > At this point, I'd say that it was a poor investment to learn over just > making more FK stuff for Pylons... I'd say that TW is a big nasty mess; > the hardest library to understand that I've ever seen, and I'm pretty > familiar with Twisted! It works mostly, but when something doesn't work, > good luck finding out where or why. I'm not sure how form processing > could have gotten that complicated... it's pretty much strings in and > strings out.
The option no one seems to consider, but which I continue to advocate, is using FormEncode with htmlfill and ad hoc templates to generate the actual HTML forms (because once you take out the value filling, error filling, and validation, it's easy to generate HTML forms). Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list Webware-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
