[Seaside] Templates?
Colin Putney
cputney at wiresong.ca
Fri Sep 12 13:23:03 CEST 2003
Julian Fitzell wrote about pretty printing:
> It's not Seaside's fault... the problem is that you can't arbitrarily
> put carriage returns or tabs inside fields because it renders as a
> space in HTML that might not have been there otherwise.
>
> Foo<span>bar</span>baz
>
> renders differently from:
>
> Foo
> <span>bar</span>
> baz
>
> for example. I've been through a handful of iterations of
> pretty-printing, and none of them ever ends up being semantics
> preserving. If someone can come up with a concrete plan and prove
> that it is semantics-preserving in all cases, then I'm all for adding
> it. Otherwise, it's just another complication when tracking down weird
> display problems.
Agreed. This is one of the reasons I like templates. Because you get
finer control of the output, and can format your html in a way that is
readable *and* has the semantics you want.
Colin
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