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The obvious alternatives to string templates are: - embedding client-side markup as a DSL in the language to generate HTML (Markaby/Seaside) - component/contr

by henning 18y ago

The obvious alternatives to string templates are: - embedding client-side markup as a DSL in the language to generate HTML (Markaby/Seaside) - component/control-based systems (ASP.NET, JSF I guess) I prefer the first.

Tichy 18y ago
I think Hacker News is using the component/control-based approach with Arc? Just curious.
- henning 18y ago
  I thought it was macro-based HTML generation, which is typical of Lisp web libraries.
  - Tichy 18y ago
    macro-based alone doesn't imply one approach or the other, or does it? There could be macros for all the HTML tags (table => <table>), or there could be macros for "widgets".
    - david 18y ago
      Right, IIRC UCW is (was?) using both components with either html templates or html generation.
omouse 18y ago
Seaside also has components. But they aren't as brain-dead as the ones in ASP.NET. It's much cleaner and better-designed (I haven't dug into Seaside completely yet, but so far, very clean)