Re: PROPOSAL: switch all html to templates

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Ilya Khamushkin wrote:
....
> ok! thank you!
>
> My 2 cents about templating ;-)
>
> I think we need some more flexible and powerful template engine
> that you develop yourself. IMHO: Smarty - one of the best and used.
> http://smarty.php.net/whyuse.php
> http://smarty.php.net/rightforme.php
>
> There are many features like loops, expressions, etc.
> http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/
>
> I don't offer to use cms or other packaged web software,
> but all that we need is separate code from layout and design.
> And I think we should not develop things that already done.
> We are really open source? :-) so let use it!
>
> About "Resource" page...
> May it can be just a wiki page?
> Please look to another Gnome-oriented website:
> http://tango-project.org/
> It completely powered by MediaWiki.


The problem is, if we start pulling in code form different locations, it 
can be too easy to loose track of what happens where. I think it would 
be great if we could borrow code, but I'd rather do all or nothing.

I'd like art-web to be a complete project in it's own right - not one 
that borrows from other places and ends up a miss match of coding style 
and approaches.

However, I agree that the Resource pages needs to be "Wiki" style. It 
needs to be edited easily and freely. We could create a simple link to a 
live.gnome.org (like we currently do with the Tutorials section). 
However, if we can I think it would be nice to implement something 
ourselves, and perhaps we can use the same framework for the Tutorials 
page eventually.

-Thomas