Re: [Plone-Users] New content type

[Alex C. <ac...@ac...>]

On 2007-09-14, deesto <joh...@gm...> wrote:
> wichert wrote:
>> You can not create a content view template that works properly in both
>> Plone 2.5 and 3.x. 
> Egads (I'm inclined to use a stronger word, but there may be young children
> present). I think that may deter some folks from upgrading.

Why? I would assume anyone developing a content type can figure out the 
difference between the two versions and update their templates accordingly
(although I do sympathize with the concern about the change).

> Could you please point out the differences in view templates between the
> two, or is the difference just so radical that they're not even worth
> comparison?

The difference is that METAL is out and viewlet managers are in. I don't
know exactly what a viewlet manager is, but I'm guessing it's z3 technology 
(read: Five) that moves logic out of the template to somewhere else
(see: http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/customizing-main-template-viewlets/introduction)
for more info. In particular, 
"Like Zope 3 views, content providers are multi adapters that adapt the context and the request. 
Content providers additionally adapt the view they are looked up from.
Viewlets are content providers, they are small components of a page that render a small piece of HTML code."
(Thanks Davcontent! ;-)

>
> Thanks,
> ~John


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