[Product-Developers] Re: Where does it hurt?

[Jon Baldivieso]

On May 20, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Dylan Jay wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> Previously Martijn Pieters wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net 
>>> > wrote:
>>>>> Style sheets and images don't, and people may prefer skin layers.
>>>> Style sheets often want DTML, which is not supported in browser
>>>> resources.
>>> Nothing stops you from using ZPT for this. ZPT may be a bit more
>>> cumbersome to use when outputting a non-XML format, but not that  
>>> much.
>> Of course you can. But is is incredibly awkward to use an XML  
>> attribute
>> templating language for a pure text format. We don't want to inflict
>> that on users. Have you ever looked at our email templates? They are
>> amazingly painful to read for that very reason.
>
> pretty much all that gets replaced is colours + 2 widths. so I don't  
> think matters much the templating. I'd personally prefer no logic in  
> the css since it makes it hard to work with css people who aren't  
> programmers.

The main win (for us at least) for using DTML in our CSS isn't logic,  
per se; it's the ability to grab the portal_url variable so that we  
can set background images with an absolute url.  (We do that in every  
single customized theme we create, and like Wiggy, I shudder at the  
thought of doing that in ZPT.)
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