Yes it is often more verbose at times. But there are many advantages to this way of having the html as smalltalk code. You can use the same refactoring tools

Yes it is often more verbose at times. But there are many advantages to this way of having the html as smalltalk code. You can use the same refactoring tools you use on code to refactor your html. You use the same abstraction and composition mechanisms to structure your html. You use the same control structures for you html than for your code (which are very clear in smalltalk). You can put some html in a method and reuse it in many places, it's also easy for easier to create your own components or tags in seaside than it is in other web component frameworks I have used.