[TYPO3-50-general] The successor of TCA?

[Thomas Maroschik]

Am 06.07.10 14:54, schrieb Michael Sauter:
>
> not sure if I understand all implications of this, but couldn't this be
> achieved with only Fluid as well?
>
> I think it should also be considered that Mozilla seems to be switching
> away from XUL to HTML/CSS/JS (Jetpack) because this allows a broader
> audience to write add-ons ...
>
> In general, I would prefer as little different technologies as possible
> - TYPO3 already has (too?) many of them in my eyes ;)

Hi Michael,

the problem with using Fluid is, that Fluid is rather an procedural 
language. Of course you can achieve anything with such a language, but 
in that case you would write Fluid wrappers for extdirect calls.

XUL is more of a layout (domain specific) language. Think of it as a 
wireframe. It has no for loops or no real variables/data pointers. It is 
something like the description of the backends skeleton. Of course you 
could achieve this also with HTML/CSS/JS, but that defines just one 
Backend. If you put XUL between the controller layer and the HTML/CSS/JS 
or whatever view layer (schema: controller -> layout -> view) you have 
an abstract layer where the final view layer is interchangeable.

Surely you can realize this all by using an own layout language like 
parts of tca, but if you use standards, the number of usable editors, 
tools and documentation increases massively.

Greetings,

Tom
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