[Nitro] Nitro templating question

Sat Jan 7 10:36:42 EST 2006

Spooky, I was discussing this with Chris yesterday. I also would  
prefer external template file support for elements.

On 7 Jan 2006, at 11:06, George Moschovitis wrote:

>> What I've found in skin.rb is a bunch of disconnected HTML  
>> embedded as
>> raw strings in Ruby code.  For anything but the most trivial page  
>> layout
>> that is a nightmare to design and maintain.
>
>
> Really?
>
> I think rails layout system is only usefull for small, silly
> applications. Like many original rails features this seems tailored to
> 37signals simplistic applications, this is not a general solution. I
> find Nitro's elements or xslt compilers to be much more intuitive,
> elegant and powerful. I mean:
>
> <Page>
>   ..
> </Page>
>
>
> and
>
>
> class Nitro::Element
>   class Page
>      def render
>         %~
> <html>
>    <head>
>    </head>
>    <body>
>     ...
>     ...
>     #{content}
>     ...
>     #{content :sidebar} <!-- renders content from sidebar -->
>    ...
> </html>
>         ~
>      end
> end
>
> is quite easy to do. I can easily add external template file support
> for elements to make this better for you (ie keep th render xhtml in a
> separate .xhtml file). Any other ideas?
>
> regards,
> George.
>
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