Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Warnock
Robert, I am with you. Ian mentioned wanting the javascript to be agnostic about the back end (ie work for servers in any python framework and even ones in other languages). I think the same should be true for the front end. The server should not be producing special output for a javascript

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-27 Thread Dave Warnock
Ian, One of the things I've been experimenting with in Paste is fully doctested tutorials. I'm optimistic about it I like what you have been doing with this. Looks a really good use of doctest But anyway, if documentation can be cumulative instead of temporary it makes a huge difference, and te

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-27 Thread Dave Warnock
Titus, Anyway, doomsday thoughts aside: we don't need new frameworks, or even new amalgamations of existing projects. I think we need to make the existing frameworks easier to use. Python Paste and WSGI in general will help with this by standardizing deployment, but we need more and better docume