[Grok-dev] Re: How are viewlets better than macros?

[Martijn Faassen]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Christian Klinger <cklinger at novareto.de> wrote:
>> sorry i´m not the person who can explain it in detail. :-((
>> I think JW Kolman is the "driver" for this topic and
>> Theuni gave a nice presentation on pagelets.
>>
>>
>> For more information you can look at the doctest [1] of pagelets.
> 
> OK.
> 
> "Pagelets are way to specify a template without the O-wrap."
> 
> What is an "O-wrap"?

I don't know where that term came from, but it's basically the layout 
around the main content bit. With pagelets, you can just specify the 
main content bit and have a layout thingy wrap itself around it. Quite 
similar to the pipelines story we've been discussing in some ways.

Regards,

Martijn