From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-04-14T11:46:13-07:00
Subject: Re: New HTML Toolkit

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Bill Atkins (dejaspam@batkins.com) wrote:

> I was thinking today about how much I hate writing programs to
> generate HTML, so I sat down and wrote some code.  There's currently
> nothing to make this work - it's just an idea

> 		header1 "Here's a sample header", :class =3D> 'modern'

Setting attributes in this manner can lead to unreadable code.

> The generation wouldn't necessarily be sequential.  The title and name
> methods would store attributes and then everything would be converted
> to a string at once.

It looks like you'd then have to create a structure first, then render
it to HTML when it is complete.

> I'd also like to add some kind of system for dealing with sessions and
> forms.  Possibly incorporating Borges into this would be a good idea.

Well, I've already ported the hard part of your framework in Borges
(simple HTML generation, render from a pre-built structure).  You can
find this code here:

http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/borges/lib/Borges/HTML=
/?cvsroot=3Dborges

What it does not do is pretty-print the HTML, because nobody working on
Seaside found it worth the effort to get it right.  Instead you just get
a single long string.

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