SQLFORM is still gonna be there, just deprecated. Which I believe means bug
fixes only at this point.
As long as there are gluon.html and gluon.sqlhtml you can continue as
accustomed.
On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:06:17 PM UTC-4, viniciusban wrote:
>
> I don't agree with killing a way to send formed html to client.
>
> Web2py is for backend development, in spite of most clients run js,
> some of them, don't. There are non-js clients. wget is one of them. I
> know, it's not widely used, but depending on your application, it is a
> client of it.
>
> As I explained at the other message, I don't agree with killing a way
> to generate backend form html.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Massimo Di Pierro
> <massimo....@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
> > Please find attached a welcome4.zip with contains the following files:
> >
> > controllers/default.py
> > views/layout.html
> > vides/default/index.html
> > modules/jform.py
> > static/js/jform.js
> > static/js/jform-bootstrap2.js
> > static/js/jform-bootstrap3.js
> >
> > My proposal is the following:
> > 1) deprecate SQLFORM (but keep it for backward compatibility)
> > 2) replace
> >
> > form = SQLFORM(table).process()
> > ...
> > {{=form}}
> >
> > with
> >
> > form = JForm(table)
> > ...
> > {{=form}}
> >
> > what is the difference? SQLFORM generates html. JForm generates JSON
> > metadata which is then converted into the form client-side by the js in
> > jform.js.
> > why?
> > - it is much faster because all rendering is done client-side
> > - it can "optionally" submit the form via Ajax without having to change
> your
> > code.
> > - it is much easier to style and create widgets for different css
> > frameworks.
> > For example include the right one:
> > static/js/jform-bootstrap2.js
> > static/js/jform-bootstrap3.js (I only provide a layout for bs2 and not
> bs3)
> > - it is much more powerful because you can customize widgets in JS.
> >
> > We could also add a JTable, a JMenu and a JLogin and keep all the
> styling
> > info in JS files as opposed to Python files.
> > This would make web2py leaner and cleaner.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Massimo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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