[Zope-dev] Zope2 ZMI and HTML5

[Tres Seaver]

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Charlie Clark wrote:
> Am 05.02.2010, 19:29 Uhr, schrieb Roberto Allende <rover at menttes.com>:
> 
>> Regarding DTML... i wonder if it dtml purpose doesn't overlap with
>> tal/metal or even viewlets. If that's the case we wouldn't provide
>> 'One-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it' and for non Dutch
>> newbies  is kinda confusing because end up with situations like
>> 'you've to learn it but you won't use in-real-projects'.
> 
> Yes, DTML does overlap with ZPT and subsequent stuff. I'm in total  
> agreement about being able to hold up the ZMI as an example of how Zope  
> follows it own best practices. As Tres says removing DTML entirely from  
> the code base would bring little benefit at considerable cost. However, I  
> assume that once major consumers of DTML such as the ZMI and ZSQL were  
> migrated it might become easier to refactor code to make DTML optional in  
> time.

You aren't ever going to get ZSQL "migrated" to use ZPT.  ZPT is a
really poor fit for "non-markup" templates like SQL.  Folks writing
"modern" apps tend to favor non-dynamic SQL anyway (using "placeholder
variables") and so would just not use ZSQL.


Tres.
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