[Seaside] CSS dinamycally manipulated

Ramon Leon ramon.leon at allresnet.com
Sat Jun 9 22:04:34 UTC 2007


> I believe that having a dynamic css doesn't urge the 
> designers to program it. 

Of course not, because designers don't program.

> I don't like much this old way of 
> thinking: code and coders at one side, design tools and 
> designers at the other one. Data vs code.

It's not old thinking, it's reality!

> Coders and designers should do there work orthogonnally 
> without annoying each other and with their own point of view. 

Agreed, hence HTML for programmers, and CSS for designers.

> But why not doing this on the same language core. 

Because if designers understand the language we work in, they aren't
designers, they're programmers.

> It would even be nice for designers to have a bit of coding 
> possibilities like macros. This standard philosophy results 

Then they become programmers, not designers.

> to the failure of Lisp. I hope the trendy solution like 
> XML/XSLT would give us a future way of composing 
> page/wiki/application in a more DSL fashion.

You have a design DSL already, it's called CSS.




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