On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Gavin Panella <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 November 2010 11:22, Jonathan Lange <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> => Templates will die >> * Content vs Presentation better done w/ HTML vs CSS than data >> structures vs HTML > > I can't parse that :) Could you expand it a little? >
Sure. I'll put it in my own words, though, perhaps accidentally injecting my own thinking. We used to think that templates were a great way to separate content from presentation. Under that thinking, a template represents presentation, and is made up of HTML; the content is, roughly, server-side objects that know nothing of presentation. The app server would moosh together the server-side objects (content) and the template (presentation) to make a fully-formed HTML page. However, because there's lots and lots of Javascript on the client side now, templates make much less sense, particularly for web applications. Javascript can build elements and widgets very quickly in response to fresh data from the webserver. If you have HTML at all, it could be better considered part of the content. In terms of presentation, you can do absolutely everything in the world with CSS. Make sense? jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
