Why should we use tiles as opposed to anything else? I am told that this question
comes often, so the list below has been compiled from this mailing list archive and
other published articles to consolidate the arguments for using tiles. If you have
experience with tiles, please add, modify, or
Sounds like a job for the Struts Wiki!
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?StrutsProjectPages
Frank Rizzo wrote:
Why should we use tiles as opposed to anything else? I am told that this question comes often, so the list below has been compiled from this mailing list archive and other
If you can add to the list of reasons why someone might want to use Tiles on their
project, please visit http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?StrutsSellMeOnTiles
Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Sounds like a job for the Struts Wiki!
: Sell me on tiles
Tiles is a major pita to set up but its amazing how much time
it saves down
the road.
I think its awesome just from the fact that u dont need to worry about
putting all the decorations on a page (nav bar/header/footer
etc) and only
need to worry about the meat and potatoes
The major selling point of tiles is that you can encapsulate, and reuse,
page layouts, much as you can reuse layout managers in classic UI
frameworks such as Struts. Beyond that, tiles have many other features
that will save you a great deal of time and effort, such as extending an
existing
(E-mail)
Subject: Sell me on tiles
We are starting a fairly new project using struts. We are at a point where
we need to make a decision on using tiles or not using tiles. On one hand
it's not too hard to implement (one developer already has it working with
our project). On the other hand we
I appreciate you've had lots of replies already - but tiles
was the killer feature for us in selecting struts. Please don't
misunderstand that struts isn't great anyway - we love it - but
the addition of tiles has made developing complex websites a
breeze.
There is a very outdated
justification
for why struts was chosen as the framework.
H.
-Original Message-
From: James Childers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 February 2003 15:41
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: Sell me on tiles
I appreciate you've had lots of replies already - but tiles
I can't get the site to display at all, and i've tried both IE and Mozilla.
-Original Message-
From: Hue Holleran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:20 AM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Choice of colours
strangely but again will be fine in production. IE and Moz are fine if you
can connect!
H.
-Original Message-
From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 February 2003 16:22
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
I can't get the site to display
on tiles
I can't get the site to display at all, and i've tried both IE and Mozilla.
-Original Message-
From: Hue Holleran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:20 AM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Choice of colours
: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 February 2003 17:45
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Why do you need special stuff for Opera? Opera suppports the w3c standards
more closely than the other browsers.
David
From: Hue Holleran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply
in production.
H.
-Original Message-
From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 February 2003 17:45
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Why do you need special stuff for Opera? Opera suppports the w3c standards
more closely than the other browsers.
David
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Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
If it looks ok in Opera, then it will look ok in the other browsers. Maybe
you should test in Opera first ;-).
David
From: Hue Holleran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL
Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:31:38 -
;- Actually Opera do supply it as a deb for Linux so we might well give
it a try - as all development happens on Debian workstations. I guess it's
not supplied as part of Debs as it's
-Original Message-
From: Hue Holleran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:32 PM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
I'm pretty sure the solution is to use another table outside of this one and
have yet another nested table
We are starting a fairly new project using struts. We are at a point where
we need to make a decision on using tiles or not using tiles. On one hand
it's not too hard to implement (one developer already has it working with
our project). On the other hand we haven't seen any added functionality
and it's not tied to any surrounding layout.
David
From: Southard, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Struts User Group (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sell me on tiles
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:34:29 -0700
We are starting a fairly new project using
User Group (E-mail)
Subject: Sell me on tiles
We are starting a fairly new project using struts. We are at a point where
we need to make a decision on using tiles or not using tiles. On one hand
it's not too hard to implement (one developer already has it working with
our project). On the other
: Southard, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: mardi 18 février 2003 17:34
To: Struts User Group (E-mail)
Subject: Sell me on tiles
We are starting a fairly new project using struts. We are at a
point where
we need to make a decision on using tiles or not using tiles. On one hand
it's not too
Tiles is a major pita to set up but its amazing how much time
it saves down
the road.
I think its awesome just from the fact that u dont need to worry about
putting all the decorations on a page (nav bar/header/footer
etc) and only
need to worry about the meat and potatoes part.
Aside
We migrated from using %@include ... to tiles last year.
Development for is on an order of magnitude easier for our graphics
designer. Instead of ugly header.jsp/footer.jsp type logic, you have
template.jsp with body.jsp/sidebar.jsp stuff like that. No need from
broken html in include files any
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