Re^4: Your kung fu is excellent but what about...

You must have a different definition of "static" vs "dynamic" pages than I have. I've always used "dynamic" for pages that are generated on demand (CGI, mod_perl, whatever), while "static" pages are created in advance (and served for instance from a filesystem or database).

I'm a bit puzzled about what you mean by "static pages". From you description, I gather you can use templates when creating a "static page". Which makes me wonder, what in your opinion is a static page?

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Re^5: Your kung fu is excellent but what about... by tilly (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2004 at 16:30 UTC
Somewhere between what I intended to say and what you understood, something important got reversed. Possibly it was my poor choice of wording. I mean dynamic the same way that you do, and what I was saying is that templates are an option on dynamically generated pages, but not on static ones. Therefore if you're developing a dynamic site, you have design options that you don't if you have a static one. Technically that is not entirely true (you can use templates in a "make"-like step with static sites - Template Toolkit has explicit support for this), but exceptions tend to be rare.	[reply]

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Re^5: Your kung fu is excellent but what about...
by tilly (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2004 at 16:30 UTC

I mean dynamic the same way that you do, and what I was saying is that templates are an option on dynamically generated pages, but not on static ones. Therefore if you're developing a dynamic site, you have design options that you don't if you have a static one. Technically that is not entirely true (you can use templates in a "make"-like step with static sites - Template Toolkit has explicit support for this), but exceptions tend to be rare.

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