From: Nugroho Herucahyono <me@...>
Date: 2009-12-09T13:19:14+09:00
Subject: Re: haml

There are some Indonesian fellows working on W2tags
(http://github.com/wharsojo/w2tags)

I'm don't know how many people use it, but if you're looking for
alternatives maybe you can check it out.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am starting to look at haml and was wondering if there is anything else
>> like this out there that make working with html easier?
>>
>
> Rajinder,
>    there are quite a few options, but Haml is definitely the most popular
> of the alternatives.
> By alternative, I mean it in the sense that you implied - that it changes
> how you construct
> HTML. There are some alternatives to Erb, like Erubis, that make your
> rendering faster,
> but you are still using Erb syntax (HTML with ruby code in escapes).
>
> Markaby was an earlier attempt to accomplish the same things as Haml, though
> I think
> Haml has stolen its marketshare. There are also probably a few plugins that
> let you use
> Markdown or Textile syntax for your HTML authoring.
>
> You might want to check out Webby to see some options. Its a static site
> generator,
> but it has support for a whole laundry list of templating options.
>
> regards,
> Richard
>
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