-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Dangoor [mailto:tazzzzz@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 5:35 PM To: Kam Cheung; Zope Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and Frontier Comparison
--- Kam Cheung <zope@littlecircle.com> wrote: [lots of good comparison of Frontier and Zope acquisition deleted]
In Frontier, it's another story. When you view a Frontier object, Frontier will assume that you will acquire the most immediate pageHeader, pageFooter and template. So, in a Fronter object, all I need to do is put in:
Bodytext goes here!!!
I don't need to refer to any pageHeader or pageFooter in the html object.
When I chose to start working with Zope, I also evaluated Frontier. To me, the automatic use of templates seems natural and convenient. It allows the delegation of content creation without the writer having to know *anything* about DTML. If you use Structured Text, they only need to know a little structured text, no HTML.
I just D/Led frontier today, so I'm still looking at it. Looks like interesting stuff.
It would not be difficult in Zope2 to create ZClasses that automatically use a default template.
These ZClasses have in fact been created here in house, we have a ZClass called STXDocument that has a two sided nature, one is the Content, the other is the Format. You can think of it as a hybrid between DTML Documents and DTML Methods. The content you can edit is the DTML Document part, and the Format is the DTML Method. They're a bit misnamed, because they are not limited to STX, in fact, we could use a good name suggestion for this cool object. By default, the format is <!--#var standard_html_header--> <!--#var content fmt=structured-text--> <!--#var standard_html_footer--> This can be changed in one of the object's 'views' just like a DTML Method. -Michel
Kevin
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