in reply to Re: Random templating
in thread Random templating

Don't be too quick to judge multiple templates as 'A bad thing'. Templates that respond to the user agent (IE, Mozilla, ...) or the method of access WAP, text only etc. are common place. After all, one of the main drivers for using templates is the separation of content from presentation.

As with anything, this seperation can be abused. I concede that poor use of templating is going to hack the users off. I guess that this is just an example of poor design.

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Re^3: Random templating
by saskaqueer (Friar) on Oct 14, 2004 at 03:35 UTC

    Sorry, perhaps I should have specifically stated that multiple visual templates are horrible. Obviously, permitting different templates for uses such as WAP, text-only, etc. are a good thing. My concern is website designers who take it upon themselves to alternate their pages' templates for visual browsers (IE, Netscape, Opera, etc.).

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