Hi Massimo, I have been reading up a bit on the direction of JS and wondering if this porting of helper system and form generation -- will it be for web2py or it will be a new feature for web3py?
Will it be dependent on any particular JS libraries? On Thursday, July 17, 2014 7:35:16 PM UTC+8, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 17 July 2014 04:50:16 UTC-5, lyn2py wrote: >> >> Hi Massimo, probably a dumb question, but can you explain more why you >> would want to move the helper system and form generation to clients side? >> Thanks. >> > > I think it would be nice to have a framework where the server only needs > to data (ajax web services) and the forms are generated by JS code based on > information provided by those services. > > >> >> When do you foresee that Python 3 will takeover the world by storm and >> leave Python 2 permanently behind? And when will web3py be ready… hehehe... >> > > Not soon ;-) > > >> I actually like the idea that for one time, web2py will break backward >> compatibility to create a better, lighter web2py. Probably won't happen >> until web3py, but I'm just dreaming :) >> >> Love it that DAL is staying no matter what :) >> >> On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:14:03 AM UTC+8, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>> >>> >>> I think the future is a lighter web2py with a similar IDE but more >>> client-side logic out of the box and more automatic. For example I have >>> ported the web2py helper system (DIV, SPAN, etc.) to JS. I would like to >>> move form generation also clients-side. I would like move away from the MVC >>> and to a mini-MVC patter where an action is responsible for a single >>> component (for example validation) and not for an entire page. Wherever we >>> are going the DAL is staying! >>> >>> -- 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.
