[Zope3-Users] How to render PageTemplate manually?

[Jean-Marc Orliaguet]

Stephan Richter wrote:

>On Wednesday 04 January 2006 07:55, Łukasz Łakomy wrote:
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>>Create content type 'Portlet' that could have TAL as its content and when
>>watched in browser TAL should be redered. My code is below.
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>You really should not call this a portlet. A portlet is very well defined by 
>JSR 168. Note that the Zope community -- specifically CMF and Plone -- have 
>misused the term for a long time.
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this is very developer-specific.
people started using "telephones" before phone companies agreed on a 
common standard I guess.

PS: note that "viewlets" are known outside the Zope3 world as being 
small tutorial movies:
http://psptips.com/6/viewlets/
http://www.pmwdc.com/skies/
http://www.geek.com/tipstrix/qarbon/
http://www.djdenham.com/Basic_Windows.htm
http://www.datacad.com/support/bulletin/Viewlets/viewlets.htm

I wonder why "portlets" are called "viewlets" in Zope3.

best
/JM