Re: New AWS-based website

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 12 Kwi, 16:28, Thomas Locke <tho...@12boo.net> wrote:

> I think it's nice when you have a few dedicated HTML people, who you'd
> rather not have mucking around in the Ada code. You can agree on a set
> of tags and leave them to work their magic on the GUI side of things.
>
> At least that's how I've used templating systems in the past (primarily
> XSLT based). It's a model I feel works very well.

I fully agree with it - if there was such a need, I would divide the
work between XML served directly from the server (very likely as a
combination of sources as described previously) and the XSLT
transformations, which would be under responsibility of other
dedicated developers. CSS is on the same side.

That's why I see no place for template parsers built into AWS - in
other words, between generating HTML directly and generating XML (that
is transformed by XSLT on the client side) there is no space left and
therefore server-side template parser is a solution to the problem
that does not exist.

> I've yet to use templates_parser for anything "serious".

Exactly.

> Ahh yes, the AWS session management system. I too feel that it would be
> nice if it were a bit more "flexible", for lack of a better word.

I think it does not need to be. Doing it properly (that is, flexibly
enough to cover all needs) would be a huge amount of work and it would
always be a wrong solution for some purpose. Considering that doing it
right in the actual context of the target system is not difficult at
all (support for cookies is all that is neededd), there is again no
problem to solve with the library-based solution.

In other words - if the session management can be done entirely in
memory, then a screenful of code does the job and the library has
little added value; and if it requires support from the database, then
the general-purpose library feature will not be adequate anyway.

> AWS Express Edition - that's a pretty darn good idea! What say you
> Pascal?  :o)

:-)

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