[Zope-dev] Re: ZClasses useful! [Was: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm]

[Adrian Hungate]

Ok, ZPT is easier that DTML? How do you code this in ZPT?

<dtml-in objectIds() sort=id>
<dtml-var sequence-item>
</dtml-in>

Last I checked, sorting and batching were difficult to the extreme in ZPT.
If we are aiming to be a Web Application Server, we have to assume that
people are going to want to generate sorted lists of data, in batches.

Also, have you tried explaining ZPT to ASP programmers? Trying to turn an
ASP designer from the Dark Side is not being made any easier by either the
uncertainty about the programming platform, or by moving from a simple, HTML
based language, to an attribute based language that allows you to use and
abuse HTML tags in potentially confusing ways...

<hr tal:replace="structure here/standard_html_footer" />

I rest my case.

Adrian...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
To: "Adrian Hungate" <adrian@haqa.co.uk>
Cc: "Andy McKay" <andy@agmweb.ca>; "Martijn Jacobs" <mart@eastsite.nl>;
<zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZClasses useful! [Was: ZMI / JavaScript
brainstorm]


> Adrian Hungate writes:
>  > .... DTML and ZCLasses ...
>  > I think that blindly disposing of both, just because a newer idea has
come
>  > along is just that - blind. So what if ZPT is more (choose your
comparison
>  > here) than DTML? DTML is far easier to learn, far easier to read, far
easier
>  > to write, and much much easier to explain to newbies.
> I see this exactly the other way round: ZPT is easier than DTML.
>
> Otherwise, I agree with you...
>
>
> Dieter
>