On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 7:46 pm, David Hart wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless METAL is used with only very limited, well-defined and/or non-nested bits of included stuff, using METAL makes it very difficult to edit the layout of ZPT pages with external design tools like Dreamweaver. Ever tried to change the look of Plone with Dreamweaver?
I believe you are correct. A tool like Dreamweaver benefits more from having its own library of HTML/TAL fragments which may then be inserted where needed. Editing the library item will then allow across-the-site changes happen in a similar manner to METAL. This is used to good effect in the Bizar Shop product which ships with a large selection of library items, and uses no METAL. METAL is used in my Roundup project (http://roundup.sf.net/) to provide a "page" template (I call the page macro defined "icing" ;) which provides a facility that nothing else could (well, not in the constraints of well-formed HTML that TAL works in). Richard