From: <web...@th...> - 2004-12-30 10:58:06
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Hi, > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Shayne ONeill [mailto:sh...@pe...] > Verzonden: donderdag 30 december 2004 7:10 > No. I can plainly say that personally the mess that is DTML > is precidely why I quit using zope (and havent looked back). > Please allow me to remain stubborn in my support of DTML : I have developed, with my team, multiple web apps using DTML and yes, every language/technology has its pros and cons, but talk of "the mess that is DTML" just isn't coherent (at all) with our experiences ... Now, "the mess that is DTML" is also an absolute statement; my question then is: 'a mess compared to what'? Do you think it is messier than, say, PHP smarty templates ? Or messier than the rather hardcoded 'self.writeln("<p>%s</p>" % (string))' statements in some of the WebKit examples ? But, much more interesting and I would like to ask this to the other apparant DTML criticist Ian as well: what do you use for templating (PSP , ZPT , sthg. else?) ? Though stubborn in my support, I haven't said that other technologies less familiar to me are inferior per se - on the contrary! - so I would much appreciate tips to upgrade our apparant 'DTML legacy' in coming projects ! Yours, Thijs Cobben |