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| Time | Nick | Message |
|---|---|---|
| 16:49 | kados | owen around? |
| 16:49 | I've an idea related to templates | |
| 16:49 | owen | Yes. |
| 16:49 | Shoot. | |
| 16:49 | kados | what if we broke every "component" up into a series of includes |
| 16:50 | and the main pages where constructed with includes (no actual html in them) | |
| 16:50 | so we already do this a bit | |
| 16:51 | if each include was a seperate entity (could be placed independently of the other includes) then it would be easy to move them aroud to build different pages | |
| 16:51 | I'm not explaining this very well | |
| 16:52 | owen | Yeah, I'm not sure I get it. |
| 16:53 | kados | well there are things that every page has ... document head, body tags, maybe a gateway bar, and footers |
| 16:53 | those should always be includes | |
| 16:53 | owen | Right, and that's the way it is now. |
| 16:54 | kados | yea ... hmmm, maybe I need to put together an example of what I mean |
| 16:54 | it's hard to explain | |
| 16:54 | owen | Are you saying there are more components to each page that should be put into includes? |
| 16:54 | kados | yea |
| 16:54 | owen | Like what? |
| 16:55 | kados | well basically every component could be an include |
| 16:56 | owen | How do you define a component? |
| 16:56 | kados | that's the trouble ... it seems that currently our components (includes) aren't independent enough |
| 16:57 | we can't swap the order of them aroud without ruining the validation of the page | |
| 16:57 | I need to think about it a bit more | |
| 17:00 | we could have ONE template that did everything based on the variables that were passed to it ... though I'm not sure that would be a good idea ... | |
| 17:01 | owen | I'm all for making template easier to modify, but sometimes it's easier to approach a template if everything's there where you can see it. Otherwise you have to be able to conceptualize each and every include before you can get a picture of the page in your mind. |
| 17:02 | kados | right ... but if every include was independent of the other (in other words, didn't leave any tags open) it might be easier to conceptualize them |
| 17:02 | obviously doc-head and footer can't do that | |
| 17:03 | <!-- TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="doc-head-close.inc" --> | |
| 17:03 | <!-- TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="masthead.inc" --> | |
| 17:03 | <!-- TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="gatewayBar.inc" --> |
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