> If only Tapestry were written in Clojure :-)

Yep, no users, no feature requests, no bugs :P

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I doubt that; it's well integrated into the template parser,
> not broken out into a separate service.  If only Tapestry were written
> in Clojure :-)
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Inge Solvoll <inge.tapes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As always, I'm pretty sure it's possible and not too hard to decorate the
>> built-in service that does this work :)
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Paul Stanton <p...@mapshed.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> thanks for the suggestion howard, this would be fine if it were obvious to
>>> all developers which cases were problematic. otherwise it's a case of
>>> putting out spot fires which isn't good.
>>>
>>> i still think making the whitespace compressor more intelligent ie
>>> replacing multiple whitespace chars with a single space is preferable. that
>>> way we still get 99% of the benefits of compression yet none of the
>>> drawbacks.
>>>
>>> is there a way to override the implementation of the class that does this?
>>>
>>> regards, paul.
>>>
>>>
>>> Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
>>>
>>>> Where whitespace counts, add an xml:space="preserve" attribute to the
>>>> enclosing tag, i.e.
>>>>
>>>> <p xml:space="preserve">This is my paragraph and sometimes a single
>>>> word or phrase <span style="text-decoration:underline;">might need
>>>> some special attention</span> <span style="font-weight:bold;">so I
>>>> might do this</span>, but it's still <span
>>>> style="font-style:italic;">my</span> paragraph.</p>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Paul Stanton <p...@mapshed.com.au>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Firstly, I'd like to say that tapestry does most things very well and I
>>>>> probably only comment on the things it doesn't do well. Thank you to
>>>>> those
>>>>> who've spent time improving the framework for making my job as a
>>>>> developer
>>>>> more enjoyable.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do have an issue with the production mode Considering the following in
>>>>> your average TML:
>>>>>
>>>>> <p>This is my paragraph and sometimes a single word or phrase <span
>>>>> style="text-decoration:underline;">might need some special
>>>>> attention</span>
>>>>> <span style="font-weight:bold;">so I might do this</span>, but it's still
>>>>> <span style="font-style:italic;">my</span> paragraph.</p>
>>>>>
>>>>> or a shorter eg:
>>>>> <p>A <span>B</span> <span>C</span> D</p>
>>>>>
>>>>> In development mode, this will render unchanged:
>>>>>
>>>>> A B C D
>>>>>
>>>>> However in production mode, tapestry will take out some important
>>>>> whitespace:
>>>>>
>>>>> A BC D
>>>>>
>>>>> I know you can partially combat this by using a non-breaking space in the
>>>>> markup (&nbsp;) however, this has the expected drawback of disallowing
>>>>> line
>>>>> breaking where it may be required.
>>>>>
>>>>> for example, a list of links:
>>>>> <a href="url1">1</a>
>>>>> <a href="url2">2</a>
>>>>> <a href="url3">3</a>
>>>>> <a href="url4">4</a>
>>>>> <a href="url5">5</a>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> becomes
>>>>> <a href="url1">1</a><a href="url2">2</a><a href="url3">3</a><a
>>>>> href="url4">4</a><a href="url5">5</a>...
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree that some 'compression' on html syntax is a good thing in a
>>>>> production environment, but to keep the integrity of the document I think
>>>>> tapestry should replace multiple whitespace characters with one
>>>>> whitespace
>>>>> character instead of removing all whitespace between tags. Therefore,
>>>>> while
>>>>> I know I can set "tapestry.compress-whitespace" to false, I would prefer
>>>>> to
>>>>> have my suggestion implemented in place of the existing mechanism or as
>>>>> an
>>>>> alternative.
>>>>>
>>>>> The main issues for me:
>>>>> 1. Rendered markup is fundamentally different between production and
>>>>> development environments, making the most commonly used form of testing
>>>>> flawed
>>>>> 2. In some cases a space is the only solution to layout problems and
>>>>> tapestry won't allow it
>>>>>
>>>>> Keen to hear other opinions...
>>>>>
>>>>> p.
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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