Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:41:11AM -0800, Titus Brown wrote:
>
>>I'm not really experienced enough to say -- but do you know if non-programmers
>>find Zope similarly difficult to deal with?  I'd suspect not, if only because
>>I've been impressed with how easy it is to public static pages with Zope...
>
>
> Probably because DTML provides a gentle introductory path; most HTML
> authors will be familiar with putting in  or  tags, and
> most editing tools probably support them.
>
> It's probably not Quixote's province to support this.  It would be
> easy to add utility functions to display ZPT templates or whatever,
> but editing them would require lots of fiddly work setting up DAV or
> something like that, and that's too messy to burden Quixote with.
>

I agree, I think Quixote should be able to support other templating
mechanisms but not work on them directly. For example we would use ZPTs
(or actually Page Templates ).  They have the right balance for us
on usability and design.  We have a few folks that do the website design
and take the html directly to the client for markup.  afterwards the
code to call out to the object(s) is added to the zpt but its still
viewable by the designers through whatever editor they use.

But we don't/won't use DAV or TTW editing.  Its all filesystem stuff,
version controlled, grepable (is that a word?), etc.

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Tom Jenkins
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