if you really break it up in that many small pieces then yes the design is a bit hard. Or you have to have a designer that understands the wicket panel tag and could include it :)
But normally it isn't broken up that much (panel for every input field) but more a base page and and subpage that holds a few (2) panels. johan On 8/16/07, Gabor Szokoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Slightly off topic, but this is the summer vacation season on this > hemisphere, so I'm sure no one will mind: > > On 8/16/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wicket assumes that UI designers are *designers* (and not > > half-programmers like ZK assumes) only dealing with laying out, and > > that UI logic can best be coded in Java (by programmers obviously). > > We've been using wicket for a couple of months now, our first > application is about to be deployed, so I looked back at the templates > and started wondering how much this separation of concerns applies to > us. > We have a base page with some panels supplied by subclasses, then > those panels are made up of subpanels, fragments, datatables, all with > their respective HTML templates. We have a wrapper panel for each form > input component to add a label and a nicer read-only view. All this > even before we introduced a navigation border! > > We did start from a single HTML page from a designer, and all we had > to do was slice that up, so there is some truth to the separation of > concerns, but it is was a one-way road, there's no way the designer > will understand all these HTML sniplets: We can only ask him to > beautify a full, rendered page, and slice that up again to update the > small template files. > > I'm not complaining or anything, haven't used any other web framework, > and still can't see any I'd switch to, (well, theoretically, if > designers could do OpenLaszlo all by themselves and we only had to > supply the business logic via a web service...) just wanted to share > my thoughts on the separation of concerns slogan. > > > Gabor Szokoli > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
