From: "Chris Withers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > it is hard to read (Some of us design Zope > > sites TTW...) > > Un-learn that habit too. It's so nice having things like search & replace and syntax > highlighting afterall... >
Now, this is an interesting statement and one I have heard often, and that I throughly disagree on. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the TTW part is what is one of the strenghts of Zope - I'd say that the fact that Zope uses TTW editing has had a major impact on the kind of templating mechanism and infrastructure that Zope, as opposed to much of the competition, offers out of the box. I myself choose over iPlanet and Oracle Application Server, because Zope had a lot of infrastructure IN PLACE that is needed for development, as opposed to say, Oracle Application Server, where I had to write everything from scratch, including lots of the admin interfaces. As an example, the only real competitior that Zope had at the time I was loking for web-app frameworks was Roxen Challanger, where Roxen gives away the Roxen Webserver as GPL, but sells their TTW development environment for about 5000 US$/developer. So, TTW has it's merits. Now, Roxen has FILESYSTEM based development as well, which might be what we all want as well, but *not instead*. Just because ChrisW has gone beyond TTW editing, does not make it a Bad Thing(tm) in general :) Going back to the "ZPT is good/bad" and "DTML is ok/evil" discussion, something hit me a couple of weeks ago while chatting on #zope: It seems that ZPT is mostly aimed at the Page Designer, whereas DTML is mostly aimed at the Developer. Would this be a correct assesment of the situation? /dario _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
