Re: Ruby on Rails Review

On Apr 11, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Pierce T. Wetter III wrote:
> Hmmm... #if. Doubt dreamweaver likes that...
>
> Personally, I'd like to see something more like HoTMetaL from Zope.
>
> All of these break down once you have components though, because  
> each HTML editor only understands their own component system...

I looked at Dreamweaver markup recently. It has a notion of  
"component". Each final HTML page contains special HTML comments  
delineating the original components. Often reusable components  
created by designer are very close to what a developer would do (UI  
elements reuse is the goal in both cases).

I don't know if that's a stupid idea, but theoretically it should be  
possible to sync up between a static Dreamweaver site and a WO  
(Click, Tapestry, etc.) app using an Ant script or something. If this  
ever works a designer will never have to touch an application copy,  
only the static site. Also the actual web technology will have less  
of an impact as far as synchronization is concerned.

The question is how smart the sync code can be made... it can  
certainly do an initial import of DW site to an app, but after that  
the sync becomes much more challenging. So I suspect it will be of  
limited use. Still I'd like to play with it next time when I get a  
suitable project (been mostly doing backend-heavy stuff with ugly UI  
lately).

Andrus