+1 for sure! I dug into Crate a while ago specifically to see if I could
generate strings instead of DOM objects, and was unable to untangle the
parsing from the output. This would be very useful.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Max Penet <m...@qbits.cc> wrote:
> Strong +1
>
> This is a great idea.
> This would allow more flexibility in some corner cases and
> prevent unnecessary duplication, not to mention sharing.
> Another example: I believe crate compiles templates using the DOM API,
> which is often fine, but sometimes you'd want it to do this using raw
> strings (when working with a large number of Elements), for performance
> reason. This would help to solve such issues.
>
> Max
>
>
> On Sunday, November 25, 2012 12:11:09 PM UTC+1, Dave Sann wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if it would be worth making the effort to separate the hiccup
>> rendering from the hiccup generation in these libraries.
>>
>> By hiccup generation, I mean constructing data of the form [:tag {:attr
>> val} contents] ...
>> By rendering, I mean
>> in the case of hiccup - producing HTML strings
>> in the case of crate - directly producing DOM nodes in the browser
>>
>> My thought is that this would give a generic set of hiccup data
>> generating functions that could be easily used across both libs with
>> rendering specific to the environment.
>>
>> I don't generally use the libs in hiccup or crate because they are not
>> portable and slightly inconsistent in places - all my hiccup data
>> generation code can run on the server or on the browser. It might be good
>> to have a core unified set for both...
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
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