Well regarding ongoing development ,yes I am working on tiles. But your point is valid a lot of improvement can be dome in tiles
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tiles status and feature suggestion WAS accessing Attribute of a parent-tile-definition > 2. Is tiles considered a deprecated technique? I too would like to know the status of Tiles and whether there's any ongoing development with it. I'm looking at redesigning a proprietary composite page handler to use Tiles but see a number of areas where tiles could be improved and where it is not suitable at present to meet all of my requirements: o Firstly, Tiles assumes that a page is composed of multiple content areas where you have one piece of content to an area. This is true for a simplistic site but, as in the case we have, the area on a page can be determined by a condition so that a single area could contain say one of many possible files. An example would be a page where the display differs slightly per category of user and some areas within the template are populated by different content. The ability to conditionally choose a template would also be beneficial. It is possible to create a custom tag to wrap the <tiles:put ...> in each page but this results in the page being uneditable by the growing number of tiles compliant editors and therefore they would be unable to give any improvement in productivity when creating pages. Has anyone else created pages this way using another composite page handler or product? o Secondly, would it make sense to have a 'static' identifier that could be used to perform the equivalent of a <%@ include ...> directive to embed content and thereby result in more optimised code? The static attribute would be environment switchable to allow the static functionality to be disabled during development but enabled when deployed in a production environment. Comments and suggestions, please. Regards Richard Tomlinson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *---------- This message and any attachment(s) is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the intended addressee(s), you are hereby notified that any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachment(s) and notify the sender or Kanbay postmaster immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and not of Kanbay. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and any attachment(s) are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
