[TYPO3-50-general] New templating system?

[Ries van Twisk]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Duch (aka. Grégory Duchesnes) wrote:

>
> Le 23 mars 2010 à 08:26, Martin Kutschker a écrit :
>
>> Thomas Fritz schrieb:
>>>
>>> I do not know TypoScript and i do not know FLUID. I only SAW the  
>>> syntax in
>>> documentations and so... And i have to say that i feel much more  
>>> comfortable
>>> with FLUID and i think it is easier to learn IMHO, because of its  
>>> HTML like
>>> Syntax. Just wanted to share my feeling about that...
>>
>> But FLUID and TypoScript have different goals. FLUID is designed to  
>> create XML/HTML (and plain text)
>> with the possibility and need to take care about each necessary XML/ 
>> HTML element, but it has not
>> much logic (besides conditions). TypoScript OTOH is a way to  
>> describe and configure objects that
>> will be eventually be rendered as XML/HTML/text. The basic syntax  
>> is simple and should be familiar
>> to any programmer as it uses the wide-spread dot-notation  
>> (object.property).
>>
>> Of course you could cramp all the configuration needed to create  
>> the final output into the template,
>> but it would make your life not easier. The template designer,  
>> which very possibly is no programmer
>> at all, would have to worry about all the extra stuff he doesn't  
>> undertand. And what's more you rid
>> yourself of any reuse of the template.
>>
>> If you want to mix html with business logic all in one file use  
>> Smarty ;)
>
> I don't want to be rude, but if you look at the index.html used in  
> the Extbase tutorial there are Fluid markers on almost every line.  
> Once such markup is added, i feel the template will be much harder  
> to maintain (how do you feed it to the W3C validator for example?)

Totally agreed here...
I think this is why people like TV so much, you drop in a other  
template from a designer, tell TV to update and off you go.
No tedious re-mapping and stuff!