Good points. Thanks.
On Oct 16, 3:51 am, billf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry - one other thing. I think that the manual is light on the view
> aspect of MVC. If that is really web2py rather than t2 then another
> reason to ref other docs.
>
> Examples of customization using CSS and widgets would be helpful for
> newcomers plus (that old saw of mine) using own's own html.
>
> Bill
>
> On Oct 16, 9:20 am, billf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm not trying to be clever but I suppose the answer depends on who
> > your target audience is. One way of grouping the audience is:
>
> > 1) people evaluating web frameworks and know nothing of web2py,
> > 2) people who have read the web2py manual but no real experience of
> > it,
> > 3) people who know web2py already but are just using it,
> > 4) hard-core web2py users who know it inside out?
>
> > I have 1 weeks experience of both web2py and python. However, in that
> > one week I have gone through a lot of web2py core code to try to
> > understand the sequence of events and what each part does (and I have
> > years of programing and developing webapps behind me). So, I put
> > myself at about 2.5 and it just about makes sense to me. If I had
> > just picked up the manual on day 1 without using web2py at all I'm
> > pretty sure I would have been lost.
>
> > I think it is interesting that "web2py" is mentioned only 5 times in
> > the whole text (excluding the API description): once at the end of Low-
> > level Patterns, 4 times at the end of High-level patterns and a one-
> > off on page 19.
>
> > Assuming a diverse audience, I think that the chapter/section
> > structure could be clearer - maybe:
> > 1.0 Introduction
> > 2.0 Patterns: 2.1 Low-Level Patterns, 2.2 High-level Patterns
> > 3.0 T2 - Introduction: 3.1 Web2py (first 5 references to web2py here
> > plus expand to suit audience or refer to other docs), 3.2 T2
> > Concepts(?), 3.3 Simple Example (page 7 onwards), 3.4 More Complex
> > Example
> > 4.0 T2 - Technical: 4.1 Files in T2 (currently 0.5), 4.2 API
> > (currently 0.6.1 to 0.6.3), 4.3 Database (currently page 23)
> > 5.0 Examples (currently 0.6.4 to page 22) - ideally each subsection
> > matched to a Pattern in 2.0 with some extras, e.g.Google Checkout
>
> > Now I've just got to download t2 and try it out!
>
> > Bill
>
> > On Oct 16, 1:41 am, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > thanks. Syntactics aside. Does the manual make sense?
>
> > > Massimo
>
> > > On Oct 15, 5:20 pm, Keith Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Page 24:
>
> > > > created signature stores the name of the person created the
> > > > record.
>
> > > > created --> creating (or "who created")
> > > > -----------------
>
> > > > db.mytable.myfield.comment is the comment to be shows
> > > > in the third column of create/update forms.
>
> > > > shows --> shown
> > > > ------------------
>
> > > > db.mytable.exposes is a list of fields that should apper in
>
> > > > apper --> appear
> > > > -------------------
>
> > > > Keith
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