[Zope3-Users] Re: view vs page confused

Fri Jan 26 06:16:26 EST 2007

Alex Furlong wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:31:52PM +0100, Dominique Lederer wrote:
>>> can someone explain me please when to use browser:view and when browser:page?
> 
>> As far as I understand, the intended use of <browser:page> is to define
>> views that are accessible to browsers by using URLs.

... which is what we sometimes define as a browser page :).

>> The intended use of <browser:view> is to define helper views that are
>> accessible to page templates in TALES expressions like
>> tal:attributes="href context/@@absolute_url".
> 
> Thanks Marius for the nice explanation. Of course, the question
> remains why a view is named 'page' and an other kind of view is named
> 'view'.

A view is a general component that takes a context and a request. Not 
all views have to be publishable as browser pages. The naming makes 
sense in these terms.

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