THTML The HTML doesn't necessarily reference a page. Whereas, a JSP is pretty often a whole page. How about something at the component level.
regards, Mark Mark J. Stang Senior Engineer/Architect office: +1 303.468.2900 mobile: +1 303.507.2833 Ping Identity -----Original Message----- From: Howard Lewis Ship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 1/24/2007 5:18 PM To: Tapestry development Subject: Is the HTML extension right? I've been thinking again about the extension for Tapestry templates. Although T5 again finds the deepest rut in plain old HTML (or XHTML), I'm sure that SVG or various other markup-related formats are possible. Possibly a Tapestry page could even be a dynamic CSS file. So I've been thinking that the template files should get away from a ".html" extension and settle on something Tapestry specific (rather than content specific), such as ".t", ".tt", ".tsp" (Tapestry Server Page :-) ), ".tap", etc. The other question concerns recognizing render requests in URLs. Render requests look like: http://...//folder/Page.html or http://..//folder/Page.html/context0/context1/context2 The folder/ part is optonal (and may be a number of folders). The context values are related to the page's passivate and activate requests (the thematic follow on to T4's external service). Once I implement the case-insensitive class search feature, I may be able to reduce the render URL to: http://...//folder/page http://..//folder/page/context0/context1/context2 Which I kind of like. In other words, the point where the page name ends and the context begins will be determined based on the available set of pages (in folders). Meanwhile, action URLs are a lot easier. Currently they are: http://../folder/Page.action/id-path/context Note that the period becomes an easy way to recognize the end of the page name and the start of the action name. In the short term, I'm thinking of changing this to: http://../folder/Page.id-path.action/context ... and of course, the coming case-insentivity will apply here as well (at least to the page name portion). Thoughts? -- Howard M. Lewis Ship TWD Consulting, Inc. Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant Creator and PMC Chair, Apache Tapestry Creator, Apache HiveMind Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support and project work. http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
