[Rails] Re: Remote Layout

2010-06-27 Thread doug
> Overall, I think it would be both easier and more effective for such > sites to just retrieve the substantive content through a web service > interface and embed it into their own layout. For substantive content that is static I would definitely agree with you. However, the substantive content

Re: [Rails] Re: Remote Layout

2010-06-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:38 AM, doug wrote: > I was thinking of a given web page as being composed of 2 parts: (1) > The substantive content; and, (2) a wrapper (the layout) which > surrounds the substantive content and provides (among other things) > the navigation and a style sheet affecting

[Rails] Re: Remote Layout

2010-06-27 Thread doug
By way of clarification, please allow me to make one additional point. Another way of accomplishing what I'm trying to accomplish would be through the use of an inline frame. That might well be the best way to skin this cat. I just have this thing about frames (ugh). I was hoping that I might b

[Rails] Re: Remote Layout

2010-06-27 Thread doug
> Please elaborate. I was thinking of a given web page as being composed of 2 parts: (1) The substantive content; and, (2) a wrapper (the layout) which surrounds the substantive content and provides (among other things) the navigation and a style sheet affecting the styling of the substantive cont

[Rails] Re: Remote Layout

2010-06-27 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
Doug Jolley wrote: > I have a wild idea that it might be nice to be able to host a layout > on one or more foreign hosts. That way each host could then use their > own layout to provide navigation and configure CSS stylings applicable > to the underlying content. It remotely resembles something l