Exploring Zope

Roberto Amorim wolfoxbr at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 28 12:01:29 UTC 2003


> Personally, I've spent enough time doing the templating thing to realize
> that it doesn't work.  Templates offer very little in the way of
> refactoring and higher level abstractions, they have no clear ownership
> (roundtripping between designers and developers is often painful), they
> don't integrate well with the development environment (you usually can't
> use "senders of" with a template), and they get in the way of modularity
> - designers want to make the templates as close as possible to a full
> page, whereas developers (should) want to break things down into tiny
> reusable pieces.

I used to think the same way until I got to know ZPT (Zope Templates). They
succeed in making interaction between designers and developers a breeze,
when coupled with Zope's object model. Really interesting, and I'd recommend
you to try it to see for yourself.

Regards,

Roberto






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