From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-03-23T17:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13127] Re: IOWA (Was Re: ZPT, a next-generation template technology (repost))

Jon Aseltine wrote:
> Iowa is great! I am using it for a real, deployed application. Avi calls it a
> preview release, but what he calls preview most other people call stable. :)
> Iowa is not complete, yet. I hope other people will try it out and contribute
> -- it could really put Ruby on the map in web development circles.

I started looking at it a while back, but a few things made me archive
it in the mental attic for now.

1) There was some talk of a wrong url crashing iowa and/or apache long
ago. (I'm assuming that has been fixed for 0.14)

2) "Back" button support was "missing". In alot of cases, I found that
going back to the previous page shouldn't necessarily pop up the
"session timeout" page. I was and am hoping that there would be some
easy way to allow going back using the browser back button, since end
users will do it, and the session timeout is "scary" for normal people.
(Heck, my girlfriend still asks me every time Netscape pops up the
"Unsecure document" dialog when going from a https to http url...) 
	Perhaps there is an easy way to do this, but then the "Moving Between
Pages" section of the docs is yet to be written, and I didn't experiment
that much :-)

IOWA has alot of promise, but for now its a far cry from a real
contender against Zope, IMHO.

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