[Zope3-dev] Retaining ease of customisation
Stephan Richter
srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Wed Nov 23 18:52:10 EST 2005
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 16:41, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> I think there needs to be a solution for making quick, preferably TTW
> customisation of UI templates. As Tres pointed out, this shouldn't add a
> performance overhead and lead to maintenance woes for those who know what
> they're doing. Ideally, the site admin should be able to switch this off.
> Or even, the view creator should have to turn it on (e.g. by using a ZCML
> directive that makes a template TTW customisable. Or something). I know
> this strays away from best practice, that people will slap in crazy
> python: statements in TAL etc. Having a way of dumping this stuff to
> "real" views would be good, even necessary. But I think ignoring these
> users because the approach that's most accessible to them doesn't fit with
> the purity of our framework will seem to them elitist, and it'll probably
> drive more people to ruby-on-rails, who sell themselves on how easy it is
> to get started.
You should have a look at CPSSkins for Zope 3 (developed by the Z3ECM
project).
Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training
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