On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Zev Blut wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 02:23:40 +0900, <Ara.T.Howard / noaa.gov> wrote: > >> i thought i was the only one still using amrita! development seems to >> have >> died on it, but i still find it's feature set the richest and the >> code/template separation the cleanest of the engines i've tried. > > It appears that Amrita has new maintainers and that the site has moved > to here: http://amrita.sourceforge.jp/index.html > > I too am pretty enamored with it. I especially like the parts template > addition, which I find to be quite powerful. cool - thanks for the pointer - i'd missed that. >> what's your take on the current crop of template engines vs. amrita? >> i've >> been out of web development for a bit but am starting a new project and >> trying >> to make an assesment of the ruby tools out there. > > My biggest complaint with Amrita is that is its' performance. Although, for > my current needs that has not been too much of a problem. I have tried to > look into the other engines, but as soon as start to see custom tags or > erb/asp/jsp like syntax I tend to stop my investigation. I guess I have > spoiled myself with Amrita :-) Although, I could be swayed if some of the > other template engines have something like parts template. my thoughts too. i hate adding yet another markup to html. i haven't used css too extensively, but i wonder if that's where the amriata paradigm would fall down. using class and id (and possibly deleteing them) could confuse things - but my limited usage suggested it was o.k.. i seem to recall there was a setting that left the class/id attributes untouched. anyone else with amrita/css experience? regards. -a -- =============================================================================== | EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | PHONE :: 303.497.6469 | When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good | bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. --Shunryu Suzuki ===============================================================================