On Mar 6, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Paul Wallingford wrote: > On 3/6/2012 4:11 PM, Jonathan Swartz wrote: >> I hear your concerns. So I'm not sure which of these you are suggesting: >> 1) Substitution tags should be HTML-escaped by default in Mason. >> 2) DefaultFilter should be implemented and documented in core Mason, so that >> it doesn't require a separate plugin install. >> >> #1 is hard to do because Mason is supposed to be content-type agnostic - >> usable for HTML generation but also other kinds of content generation. >> >> #2 is more reasonable. >> > > Here is a question to ponder. > > Mason, it seems, was born originally with the idea in mind for > generating web pages. Tools that are generic have their place, but so > do tools that specialize. Tools that specialize can implement > optimizations since they do not have to consider possibilities outside > their specialty. Case in point is the question of HTML filters in the > Mason core. > > So, the question is: Has anyone used Mason for anything serious other > than web page generation? If the amount of people or projects using > Mason that are not web based is essentially zero, it may be better to > add web specific features and optimizations. > > I do not know the answer to this question, except my own experience, > which is that 100% of my Mason projects are for the web.
I use Mason to generate httpd and other conf files at work. You're probably correct, though, that 99% of Mason's use is in generating web content. However, that isn't always HTML pages; I've used it to generate javscript and JSON results too, where HTML escaping would definitely be unwelcome. So I think it's better to have a well-supported, easy way to html-escape all substitution tags than to put this in as the global default. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
