[Zope-dev] Re: ZPT for CSS, anyone?

[Michael Dunstan]

On 31/03/2004, at 7:31 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Overall, I agree with you that stylesheets are best kept static. 
> However, consider what happens to cacheability when the URLs of of 
> images referenced in a document are relative;  the same problem can 
> afflict stylesheets, particularly in a setup where virtual hosting is 
> in play.
>
> I strongly favor DTML over ZPT for those cases where you need to 
> generate dynamic "plain" text (mail, CSS, Javascript, etc.)  Neither 
> will be "transparent" to tools like Dreamweaver, but then again I 
> can't imagine *any* markup that would be transparent;  it would pretty 
> much have to be embedded in whatever "comment" syntax the underlying 
> language defines.

hmmm... would a similar idea to TAL ease the pain? A sprinkling of new 
CSS properties along the lines of...

p {
     padding: 1.5em;
     foo-property: "padding context/padding";
}

Could even apply similar ideas for i18n for properties such as 
"content".

Michael