Two things
First - there' s nothing it can't do. Consider at its lowest level it uses something like
html tagNamed: 'exotic'
which means you can create any kind of tag you like.
Second you have the source code - extend it. There are several extensions floating around already that support things like yahoo web kit, scriptaculous effects, and so forth.
It doesn't take you far from the html however it makes you describe the document structure, not just spew bytes. Which means the structure can be verified and guaranteed.
HTML is a tree, not a stream. I've used many "templating systems". They all suck rocks for maintainability and are terribly fragile. They also don't generally enable component reuse.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
Two things
First - there' s nothing it can't do. Consider at its lowest level it uses something like
html tagNamed: 'exotic'
which means you can create any kind of tag you like.
Second you have the source code - extend it. There are several extensions floating around already that support things like yahoo web kit, scriptaculous effects, and so forth.
It doesn't take you far from the html however it makes you describe the document structure, not just spew bytes. Which means the structure can be verified and guaranteed.
HTML is a tree, not a stream. I've used many "templating systems". They all suck rocks for maintainability and are terribly fragile. They also don't generally enable component reuse.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
