Re: Why use templates?

seperation of code and design. web designers play with html, web programmers play with perl, and an interface is designed between them (the template.) this seperation improves the development and maintenance processes for large development teams.

as to CSS for a solution--the simple reason it's not used everywhere: netscape 4 and ie 3.

neither of those browsers support css in any standard way. ie6, netscape6, and opera6 have much better support of css 1.0, and some of css 1.1, but they're not widely used yet.

if you're interested in more info on css, check out a list apart

~Particle ;Þ

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Re: Re: Why use templates? by lestrrat (Deacon) on Apr 17, 2002 at 21:03 UTC
as to CSS for a solution--the simple reason it's not used everywhere: netscape 4 and ie 3. That's not the point, though... (I think you know that, but the BUU may not). CSS controls the L&F. Templating is about the factoring out the presentation layer ( which in this case, should be factored out again with CSS to separate the definition with L&F ) from the code logic....	[reply]