[Zope3-dev] Re: Macro vs. Pagelet

[Tonico Strasser]

Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
> Tonico Strasser wrote:
> 
>> I think I now finally understand the difference between a macro and a 
>> pagelet :)
>>
>> A pagelet is a reuseable page component that can connect to a page via 
>> interfaces and vice versa. Is that correct?
>>
>> Tonico
>>
> 
> I think that these are basically two different approaches: one is the 
> web developer approach (macros) the other is the application developer 
> approach (pagelets). The latter has a higher abstraction level since 
> rendering to HTML/XML ... comes last, almost as a feature.  With macros 
> the final rendering comes first.
> 
> /JM

Sure, completly different.

Until now I thought I won't need pagelets because I can get most of my 
job done with macros and Python scripts, after I realized that macros 
cannot connect to interfaces (of course).

Without interfaces I can't see a use case for pagelets in my Web 
projects. YMMW.

Tonico