[Zope] Zope and Frontier Comparison

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----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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