Re: [Modus-devs] Re: New Code Posted

[Sean A C. <se...@co...>]

On Thursday, Nov 14, 2002, at 13:01 US/Pacific, Nathan Dintenfass wrote:
> Yes, exactly.=A0 A facade is not a User Interface.=A0 Thus, things =
that=20
> are for outputting to a user interface should not be called a facade > =
;)

The *renderer* is what creates the UI portions. The facade could=20
equally be called controller in this context I guess.

> The issue with custom tags is that they don't have access to the scope=20=

> of the calling page (absent the very ugly "caller." syntax).

Ah, I'm with you now. That's why I suggested (global) UDFs so that=20
scope was not an issue.

> Given that we're moving to "Modus as service" as our model,=20
> server.modus makes the most sense to me (why copy it all into the=20
> request scope, after all?).=A0 Make sense?

Yes, although I still prefer the UDF approach :)

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