> only problem that i can see is one of design. my designer uses
dreamweaver.
> how do u design a visually appealing form when the <EMBPERL> tag is
> not going to have any 'rendering' in the design software??
hi cliff,
webobjects is a solution that uses the feature i described below.
webobjects designers have two choices (that i know of) for
visually rendering forms using this feature:
1. the "webobjects builder" is a gui for building forms (it comes
with the product)
2. a macromedia extension to dreamweaver for designing
webobjects pages visually (see url:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/download/extensions/wodweb.ht
ml
)
my point is this: moving the description of the form elements
to a separate file does not mean that you can't design your pages
visually. actually one has nothing to do with the other.
of course, if a gui rendering program is designed to parse an html
page looking for <input> tags then this program will fail. it would
have to be modified to recognize these <embperl> tags.
one of the reasons dreamweaver is a successful product is that unlike
inflexible gui rendering programs, they decided to account for the fact
that many pages are dynamic and that there exist many different kinds
of dynamic web page engines from asp to coldfusion to embperl and
webobjects. their solution was dreamweaver extensions.
an alternative would be to prototype a static page visually and then
manually replace the form element tags with what the dynamic engine
expects.
thanks, eitan
-----Original Message-----
From: ___cliff rayman___ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:16 PM
To: Eitan Suez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: feature request/suggestion??
Eitan Suez wrote:
>
>
> pagex.epl:
> ==========
>
> <HTML>
> <BODY>
> <FORM>
> <EMBPERL NAME="myname">
> </FORM>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
> pagex.conf:
> ===========
> myname:
> type=textfield
> size=20
> name=x
> value=person.name
>
only problem that i can see is one of design. my designer uses dreamweaver.
how do u design a visually appealing form when the <EMBPERL> tag is
not going to have any 'rendering' in the design software??
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