FTL vs Screen Widgets

[Brett]

I read in the emails that the ecommerce app is going to continue using
Freemarker/FTL pages and not migrate to screen widgets.

That isn't a concern but I was wondering the reasoning behind the
decision as I work on a lot of custom applications and always use
screen widgets where possible.

If screen widgets can be wrapped in a container (ie div) components
why is it better for customer-facing apps like ecommerce to be coded
with freemarker?

Thanks for your opinions.


Brett

[David E Jones]

The screen widget is used for every page in ecommerce. It is the Form  
Widget that is banned from use in ecommerce.

The reason is that visual design drives requirements in ecommerce,  
not so much functional design, and using the form widget just doesn't  
help much there, and in fact it makes incorporating custom HTML not a  
little bit, but MUCH more difficult (often involving rewriting the  
form in plain HTML/FTL).

-David


On Apr 9, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Brett Palmer wrote:

> I read in the emails that the ecommerce app is going to continue using
> Freemarker/FTL pages and not migrate to screen widgets.
>
> That isn't a concern but I was wondering the reasoning behind the
> decision as I work on a lot of custom applications and always use
> screen widgets where possible.
>
> If screen widgets can be wrapped in a container (ie div) components
> why is it better for customer-facing apps like ecommerce to be coded
> with freemarker?
>
> Thanks for your opinions.
>
>
> Brett

[Brett]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Brett

On 4/9/07, David E. Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> The screen widget is used for every page in ecommerce. It is the Form
> Widget that is banned from use in ecommerce.
>
> The reason is that visual design drives requirements in ecommerce,
> not so much functional design, and using the form widget just doesn't
> help much there, and in fact it makes incorporating custom HTML not a
> little bit, but MUCH more difficult (often involving rewriting the
> form in plain HTML/FTL).
>
> -David
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Brett Palmer wrote:
>
> > I read in the emails that the ecommerce app is going to continue using
> > Freemarker/FTL pages and not migrate to screen widgets.
> >
> > That isn't a concern but I was wondering the reasoning behind the
> > decision as I work on a lot of custom applications and always use
> > screen widgets where possible.
> >
> > If screen widgets can be wrapped in a container (ie div) components
> > why is it better for customer-facing apps like ecommerce to be coded
> > with freemarker?
> >
> > Thanks for your opinions.
> >
> >
> > Brett
>
>