[Zope-dev] Re: default view

[Lennart Regebro]

On 6/19/06, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
> Hmm, perhaps browser:defaultView isn't such a bad idea then... :).
> Actually, I don't have much of an opinion, to be honest. I just thought
> that it would make sense that browser:defaultView only modified the
> behaviour of Zope 3 views. The fact that it also modifies the behaviour
> of the general traversal machinery in Zope 2 sounds like a blessing if
> we get to avoid __browser_default__ this way; if it turns out to be a
> curse for other people, then perhaps we need a five:defaultPublishedName
> or something...

Well, or we don't do anything, and let people who refuse to use views
continue to use __browser_default__. :-) We do have the non-five
adapter for this, it can stay for ever.

> > The option is to allow attributes, and specify the browserdefault with
> > @@ to force it to be a view.
>
> Hmm. <browser:defaultView ... name="@@index.html" />??? That doesn't
> sound right.

Good, then all seems to agree on that.

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