On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM, James Strachan <james.strac...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 8 February 2010 18:58, Naftoli Gugenheim <naftoli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Welcome! > > Out of curiosity, what are the advantages of this other templating > engine? > > Probably the Haml site describes it quite well (see the showdown at > the bottom)... > http://haml-lang.com/ > > Taking the discussion to the main Lift list. > basically its a very concise way of making markup - though its a > different kind of templating engine to the one in lift where there is > no code at all in a template and you bind via reflection XML elements > to functions which then replace elements with values or apply other > transformations etc. > > I've used lots of different template engines over the years; they seem > to all have strengths and weaknesses - it mostly depends on what the > make up & skills of the team is & how the team work with web designers > etc. If I'm on a project where I don't have to chuck templates over a > wall to be edited by a web designer I find the Scaml approach a little > easier on my brain & fingers with the cost that there's no IDE to > render it other than the actual web browser and there's code in the > template which can be viewed as a bad thing - YMMV though. > > -- > James > ------- > http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ > > Open Source Integration > http://fusesource.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift-committers" group. > To post to this group, send email to lift-committ...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > lift-committers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<lift-committers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/lift-committers?hl=en. > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
