Agreed. However it's been my experience that users are confused (beyond reasonable support overhead) even by the simplified syntax you've used below. I suppose that will vary from user to user so I'll just leave it that the developer will have to decide what's best for his/her application.
Robert -----Original Message----- From: John McGowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: custom tags Robert Shubert wrote: > Beyond a handful of easy to implement functions like that, custom tags > aren't particularly useful. > > Woah, I disagree... The strength of the custom tag is that I can develop something and allow a less technical user to use it. For example our CMS has a blogging module that we built that uses custom tags. So to add the list of the latest posts to a page, a CMS user simply adds <@erube_blog_post_listing numposts="10"> to the page they want the listing on I could certainly do something similar with the @callmethod tag, but it's syntax would be far more confusing for a less technical person to work with. /John > Then again, TCFs are no more efficient than TAFs > either, but if using them can save the programmer time, then they are likely > worth it. > > Robert > > > Bill > > William M. Conlon, P.E., Ph.D. > To the Point > 345 California Avenue Suite 2 > Palo Alto, CA 94306 > vox: 650.327.2175 (direct) > fax: 650.329.8335 > mobile: 650.906.9929 > e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.tothept.com > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > -- John McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] P 847.608.6900 x 110 F 847.608.9501 ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
