[Grok-dev] Introducing Grok / KSS : feedback after 1 week

Kamon Ayeva kamon.ayeva at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 07:30:42 EDT 2008


Hi all,

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Tim Terlegård
<tim.terlegard at valentinewebsystems.se> wrote:
>>> - Learning visualization machinery is a rough time with z3c.form :
>>> view, skin, layer, pagelet, widget, manager...
>>
>> Agreed. Grok itself doesn't force you to use viewlets or pagelets or
>> skins or layers, but I take it z3c.form does? Pagelet support is
>> something we should add to Grok somehow - perhaps by making the
>> standard
>> grok.View smarter in some way instead of by introducing a
>> grok.Pagelet,
>> though.
>
> +1 on enhancing grok.View for this if possible. One less concept to
> learn.

Also, note that in Plone context, z3c.form does not force you to use
pagelets nor viewlets.
And if IIRC, Martin and Daniel have refactored plone.z3cform so it is
usable for all CMF, which probably means for all Zope 2.
Grok might want to learn from that.

Cheers,
Kamon


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