Kevin, Mario, Jason and Ed, Thanks for taking the time to reply to my email. You all indicated that I can add a variable to a form element controller and override the template if I would like to add an attribute or other data to a widgetized layout.
Let's imagine, for the moment, that I'm a designer that's been hired to work with a TG site that uses widgets heavily. Let's say I want to change the tabs that appear on each page. So I go to the template that's used for the page; no markup there that's relevant. What would give me the slightest idea that I should go to tg/widgets/links.py, scroll through the source until I find TabberDesc, select that string, paste it into a *new* document, change it as I thought appropriate, and then ask the programmer if he would pretty please use this template instead? Mario, I respectfully disagree that this is a 'good design decision'. I have been working with web frameworks since '96. I have seen a ton of toolkits that try to treat the web as if it were just another windowing framework. One of my first paying jobs was re-writing a site where the original consultants wrote their own writing-html-from-code - *in javascript*; I've never since seen this approach bear fruit worth eating. I had foolishly hoped, based on the name "widgets", that tg.widgets would be something like konfabulator or OS X's widgets: relatively high-level 'bundles' of functionality. Instead I see things like InputWidget() for <input name='text' />; indirection for indirection's sake. Javascript, CSS, and HTML already give you sufficient expressive power to write templates that describe the form you want in a parsimonious fashion. It may make it 'easier' for someone who prefers writing python code to write pages using a series of function calls, but it makes things difficult for anyone else who has to decipher what's going on to make a page happen. ~ethan fremen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
