Ah, gotcha. That makes sense now Shift-5 is actually way too hard to type but luckily Textmate lets me map it to SHIFT-Space. All's well in HAML land...
On Aug 19, 7:39 pm, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeck! My keyboard went nutty... sorry about those random > typos. > > On 8/19/07, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But, empty tags are totally encouraged (especially for js). > > > %title > > %content > > > should be possible. Ok, well maybe not for title. > > > The real solution would be to have a hardcoded list of tags. But, it > > sstill a bitb werid with different versions of different markups (xml, > > etc). > > > -h. > > > On 8/19/07, jc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Cool. That makes sense. But technically it would have been possible > > > without the % right? Since the content lines wont have any children, > > > you could just display them as is without adding tags. > > > > On Aug 19, 7:30 pm, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The % was chosen because I wanted to be able to have plain tetxt lines > > > > > %title > > > > content > > > > > title > > > > content > > > > > Tags are explicit instead of implicit. And, I wanted to be able to > > > > keep it more freeform. > > > > > Percent was chosen particularily because its SHIFT-5 which isn't too > > > > hard to hit. > > > > > -hampton. > > > > > On 8/19/07, jc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm new to HAML and a big fan of it so far. Converted my rails app to > > > > > HAML in about 2 hours and am really happy with the look of it. > > > > > However, I searched the group to find any discussion on what the > > > > > reasoning for using the % symbol for defining elements. I don't mind > > > > > it, but it seems to be that there's a much cleaner and obvious way to > > > > > formatting HAML. > > > > > > Using the wikipedia example:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haml > > > > > > Why not format it as the following? > > > > > > !!! > > > > > html{ :xmlns => "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";, :lang => "en", > > > > > 'xml:lang' => "en" } > > > > > head > > > > > title BoBlog > > > > > meta{ 'http-equiv' => 'Content-Type', :content => 'text/html; > > > > > charset=utf-8' }/ > > > > > = stylesheet_link_tag 'main' > > > > > body > > > > > #header > > > > > h1 BoBlog > > > > > h2 Bob's Blog > > > > > #content > > > > > - @entries.each do |entry| > > > > > .entry > > > > > h3.title= entry.title > > > > > p.date= entry.posted.strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y") > > > > > p.body= entry.body > > > > > #footer > > > > > p > > > > > All content copyright (c) Bob > > > > > > Is that harder to parse? Is it more of an implementation or a style > > > > > issue? > > > > > > I know this has probably been discussed before, but I'm just curious. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
