[Grok-dev] Re: Skinning/themeing

Martijn Faassen faassen at startifact.com
Sat May 19 16:40:47 EDT 2007


Kevin Smith wrote:
[snip code sample showing viewlets in quarry]

That looks pretty nice, and I almost feel I understand them. Thanks. :)

> In ZPT land, Deliverance and MatchView are orthogonal to viewlets. When 
> used properly, they are a much simpler and powerful mechanism for 
> creating pluggable UI's like Trac uses. If however, Grok were template 
> neutral, I'm not sure what kind of a role *if any* viewlets could play.

What about template-language neutrality would make viewlets difficult? 
(or unnecessary? I'm not sure what you mean there).

Regards,

Martijn



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