"Jeffrey P Shell" <jeffrey@Digicool.com> wrote, back on Feb 2: [snip]
The editing-in-HTML-editors will always be a problem with the current syntax, in my opinion, because (real code here, and code i'm not at all ashamed to have written):
<TD><SELECT NAME="category"> <!--#in "Categories(active=1)"--> <OPTION VALUE="<!--#var label-->" <!--#if "(REQUEST.has_key('category') and category==label)"-->SELECTED<!--#/if-->
<!--#var label--></OPTION> <!--#/in--> </SELECT></TD>
will give just about any editor a headache. Cyberstudio, at a minimum, moves the comment tags outside of the <SELECT> statements. Dreamweaver might handle this a little better, but as you drag and drop the visual representation around it tends to get out of sync.
This same problem hangs around ASP code with only one real visual editor existing (Drumbeat) - and most drumbeat generated sites I've been too have been as much fun as a root canal in slow motion.
Since ColdFusion uses 'regular' tags, it's relatively easy to extend editors to handle them, albeit it usually in a limited fashion.
[etc . . .] Since DTML already has at least two different syntaxes, would it be hard to give it another one, that used 'regular' tags? For getting- user-acceptance purposes it would be really good to work with as many HTML editors as possible, even lame ones. Having written the above, now I see that Jeffrey said it was a problem "with the current syntax" in his post. Sorry if I'm raising a point that has been covered in a more intelligent way already. There are just so darn many messages on this list . . . Wade Leftwich Okay Network Services, Ithaca NY tel 607-277-1334 fax 607-272-3612