Yes. And bear into account that web development is migrating towards js based interfaces.
On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:37:55 PM UTC-5, Cliff Kachinske wrote: > > 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> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Resources: >> > - http://web2py.com >> > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "web2py-users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to web2py+un...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.