What would the characteristics of the perfect library be? Some easy things that come to mind:
- automatically generate the boilerplate -- DTD, <html><head><body> tags, etc - convenient methods for converting a LoL into a table - able to "literate assemble" template fragments from the disk On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think the perfect library exists, because HTML has changed > considerably since most Racket libraries were written. > > I think xexpr do 90% of the job, but fails on the issues mentioned in > that issue. I think the best option right now is either > > txexpr --- http://docs.racket-lang.org/txexpr/index.html > > or > > html-writing --- http://docs.racket-lang.org/html-writing/index.html > > But I think the perfect system is yet to be done. (I think it would > have elements of these two, plus css-expr, for instance.) > > Jay > > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Matt Jadud <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I read through this issue: >> >> https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/577 >> >> and am in the "what is going on?" category of user when it comes to HTML >> generation in Racket. What should I be using to generate responses from a >> servlet? response/xexpr? Does that generate HTML I can use practically? Or, >> doesn't it? >> >> I've spent a lot of time in the last few days chasing the generation of TOTP >> URIs for use with apps like Authy/FreeOTP/etc. I finally realized that I'm >> passing strings like >> >> otpauth://totp/handin:[email protected]?secret=NODOF&amp;issuer=handin&amp;algorithm=SHA1&amp;digits=6&amp;period=30 >> >> to the Javascript layer for QR encoding. This looks bad to me. >> >> What is the best way to generate HTML from the webserver? I don't care about >> XML vs. HTML; I just want the fastest path to writing a small web >> application that solves a problem that I have, and part of that means easily >> generating HTML that does what I expect when I generate it. That is, >> >> (body >> (div ((id "QRCODE"))) >> (script ((type "text/javascript")) >> ,(format "new >> QRCode(document.getElementById('QRCODE'), '~a');" >> (generate-otp-uri email secret))))) >> >> seems not to do what I expect, which in this case is causing some rather >> subtle challenges to chase down. ("Why does my test for TOTP encoding pass >> *here*, and generate numbers that match *this* app when I enter data by >> hand, but fail in the same app when I read the QR code that I generated...") >> >> Pointers to relevant documentation appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> Matt >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > -=[ Jay McCarthy http://jeapostrophe.github.io ]=- > -=[ Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell ]=- > -=[ Moses 1:33: And worlds without number have I created; ]=- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
