Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Raul Raja Martinez
So If I where using JSF, I would have to: Ask my designer to write a nice layout provinding a css that controls everything and html that plays nice with the css and then I would have to turn that html into JSF tags while I pray for the layout to not get screwed. Or I can teach my designer ho

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Ron Piterman
what I meant is something else: if you compare html+css and xml+xsl: in html-css, there is no "direction" - practically (theoretically maybe not...) they must be coupled to achieve good results- xml-xsl on the other side has a flow: first comes the xml (or rather dtd) , then you write an xsl wh

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Konstantin Ignatyev
That is the well maintained MYTH of XSLT, no XSL cannot transforme XML into anything (or it is insanely painful) that is why it needs to be extended with real languages or replaced with XML-Query http://kgionline.com/articles/xsl_50_faster.jsp Ron Piterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the xml can b

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi
I know I know, that's why I say good content / style separation is a *programming issue*. How do I provide templating facilities that allow me to synchronize design work and integrate with my own database connection routines and loops and such? That's a programming problem, that Tapestry resolv

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Ron Piterman
I don't fully agree with you - ofcause, in theory, everyone can write good html, even java programmers ;-) but if you work with a web-designer, you can not split the work: I write the html and you do the styling with the css - they are coupled together - they don't relate to each other like xm

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi
Is a matter of order and of knowing the technology we are working with. It's a myth that a good programmer can't be a good HTML coder (note that I say *coder*, not designer). Good separation of content / style is a programming issue, not a design one. For me, bad HTML or CSS, given the current

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread albartell
--Original Message- From: Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:43 PM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast Well then the problem is the java programmer, not the CSS! I always

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi
Well then the problem is the java programmer, not the CSS! I always wonder how one guy who is disciplined enough to do proper JDBC and transaction demarcation, or to build complex architectures, can't use HTML as it was designed to. I think people underestimate the work of a good web coder. T

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Stang
g paid too little ;-). regards, Mark -Original Message- From: Geoff Longman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 2/17/2006 9:47 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast > > The beauty of Tapestry is that you _sh

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Stang
To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast csszengarden was created to encourage designers to use css by illustrating that they dont need to use tables to create beautiful looking sites. its not particularly aimed at accessib

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Geoff Longman
> > The beauty of Tapestry is that you _shouldn't_ be designing the pages but > instead let your creative web designer do that. Yup. We have that exact work separation and it works *perfectly*. Our output (completed pages) is easily 3 times greater than any other Tapestry project I've done where

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Ron Piterman
n Bartell http://mowyourlawn.com/blog -Original Message- From: Paul Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:07 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast In theory, establish a clean cont

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread albartell
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Piterman Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:18 AM To: tapestry-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast sure thing, but css and html work tight togeth

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Ron Piterman
the nice point about it: how imressive csszengarden is, try letting a java programmer write *the html* (of cssgarden) from scratch- that would never work... Cheers, Ron Konstantin Ignatyev wrote: csszengarden looks really impressive till I press CTRL++ (scale fonts) or resize browser window

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread gaz jones
csszengarden was created to encourage designers to use css by illustrating that they dont need to use tables to create beautiful looking sites. its not particularly aimed at accessibility... as a quick fix you could bring your face closer to the monitor lol. seperation between style and content is

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Ron Piterman
og -Original Message- From: Paul Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:07 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast In theory, establish a clean content / presentation split between HTML a

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Konstantin Ignatyev
csszengarden looks really impressive till I press CTRL++ (scale fonts) or resize browser window. IMO Non liquid layouts belong to PAPER, they should be banned from e-mediums. albartell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's what I thought too until I saw it on this site an realized how much good css

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Geoff Longman
I dunno, the project I'm working has no tables and all layout is done using CSS. They key was to have a an HTML/CSS guru design the templates from the beginning. No Java developer EVER modifies the css and rarely needs to modify the html beyond the usual (jwcid). It's been a joy to work this way.

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread albartell
fonts and colors all in one place. Aaron Bartell http://mowyourlawn.com/blog -Original Message- From: Paul Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:07 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse pod

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-17 Thread Jimmi Dyson
Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast In theory, establish a clean content / presentation split between HTML and CSS is a pleasing idea. In practice, it's a bunch of starry-eyed crack-smoking idealism. My $0.02. P On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:16 PM, Chr

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Cantrell
In theory, establish a clean content / presentation split between HTML and CSS is a pleasing idea. In practice, it's a bunch of starry-eyed crack-smoking idealism. My $0.02. P On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:16 PM, Chris Hughes wrote: I agree with Gavin's sentiment that, in general, you want to do

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-16 Thread Edward Mills
To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast Hmmm...I wish I could say more, but prefering to make mysterious and unsubstantiated statements, I would say that my own personal opinion is that Gavin might not be quite as down on tape

Re: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-16 Thread Jesse Kuhnert
Hmmm...I wish I could say more, but prefering to make mysterious and unsubstantiated statements, I would say that my own personal opinion is that Gavin might not be quite as down on tapestrys component model as the interview may make it seem.. Either way, I love hibernate and feel it's probably on

RE: Gavin King's comment about presentation code and CSS in Javaposse podcast

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Hughes
I agree with Gavin's sentiment that, in general, you want to do your presentation work in CSS. However, in order for that to be effective, you really need to have good mark-up to style. The edge that I think Tapestry has here is that it makes it easy for me to produce the mark-up, rather than rel