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Well, I guess I wasn't smart enough to ever design my markup well. :) I actually think that if you believe markup can be designed to be perfectly flexible usin
by randallsquared 18y ago
Well, I guess I wasn't smart enough to ever design my markup well. :) I actually think that if you believe markup can be designed to be perfectly flexible using the CSS we have currently (or had in 2004, the last time I actually had an original thought about this), it's probably the case that you haven't encountered a sufficiently imaginative designer.
Templates can be incredibly simple and require no further attention, but even slightly more complex ones like Smarty work really well, in my experience.
- tptacek 18y agoI'm not really even thinking about the complexity of the template language, as much as I am about the fact that all of the template languages shred your HTML document into tens of little fragments of HTML. There's always an impedence mismatch between the devs and the designers, no matter what you use. I agree that virtually no designers will be able to work directly with something like Markaby; but then, nobody asks them to. They hand the designer the unstyled output of Markaby.