From: George Moschovitis <gm@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T17:04:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Nitro Web Engine 0.2.0

>>things I dont like: for example the way Rail forces the application
>>design to the developer.
>  
> How do you mean?

for example forcing you to use model-view-controller.
or using the inflector to give names to variables.
or automatically populating your objects with methods...

>>Nitro has a different focus. Nitro aims to
>>be a framework for SCALABLE applications with many concurrent users
>>online. Wherever possible we will try to optimize the rendering pipeline
>>as much as posible and alway select the scalable way to implement
>>features.
> Do you mean Nitro prefers a pre-compile + cache approach over fully run-time
> manipulation?

have a look here:
http://atlas.navel.gr:2500/nitro/show/scalable

> Or RexML on the .sx page, to continue working in Ruby?

saddly there is no ruby-only XSLT solution at the moment.

>>it is
>>compatible with syntax highliting in editors etc.
> 
> Could I create a .sx page in Dreamweaver?

why not it is a 100% valid .xhtml page
in fact I think about changing the extension from .sx
to .xhml in a future version. Any opinions on this?


have fun,
George


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