On Mar 18, 8:54 am, Terrence Brannon <thequietcen...@gmail.com> wrote: > The demonstrated modularity is impressive. I also looked at the recent > reddit link. I must say the DAL is amazing. I've done Perl > professionally for 12 years with a focus on database processing and I > wish I had had DAL at my disposal. > > I would like to discuss one thing said in this video - "the web2py > template language is the best" > > It certainly is the most convenient and intuitive approach to > templating. However, I've always been a fan of push-style templating > (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=674225#python) and insuring that > the processor was separate from the processed. Hence, I tend to > generate HTML in a DOM like fashion. In my one Python job, I used > meld3 from Python for that purpose. I dont think the HTML created with > web2py's template system is well-formed is it? > > <table> > {{ for row: in rows }} <---- breaks well-formedness? > <tr> > ... > </tr>
Not sure I understand. Are you referring to the extra new line? > > One other thing, I notice web2py ships with jQuery, which is massively > popular and succinct. However, I find jquery a bit lacking in UI and > am probably going to use Dojo for what I'm working on at the moment. I > searched these archives and there appears to be no issue with hooking > in dojo. > > On Mar 18, 8:32 am, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > >http://vimeo.com/21185623
