[Opensource] The Great Frames Debate

Mon Mar 10 07:17:01 PST 2003

As I mentioned in a previous post that the current presentation directories are littered with .inc, jsp and html, what you suggest here I think is a GREAT start in cleaning up the logic behind the presentation and the actual files.  This maybe a little bit of an over simplification to the problem, how would we integrate the DBMaint pages, use of a new custom tag?  However with that said I would like to hear what Rimov thinks because I never really did understand the functionality that he was worried about losing.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter A. Pilgrim [mailto:peterp at xenonsoft.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 9:32 PM
> To: opensource at jcorporate.com
> Subject: Re: [Opensource] The Great Frames Debate
> 
> 
> David Herron wrote:
> > 
> > On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 13:32 US/Pacific, Michael Rimov wrote:
> > 
> >> So, is there anybody that has a suggestion on how to remove the 
> >> frames, WITHOUT removing any of the benefits that frames provide?
> >>
> > 
> 
> --////---
> 
>   > For the site I'll experiment with Tiles, but at the 
> moment what I read
> > in the book doesn't impress me.  Sounds like everything you 
> might want 
> > to do is just as doable with jsp:include or with custom 
> tags.  But maybe 
> > the Tiles let you change the look of a whole site all at 
> once just by 
> > changing the tile definition.
> 
> 
> Tiles is great for setting a standard layout for common set 
> of web pages.
> 
> --////--
> 
> Here is a simple tile layout for the Admin pages
> 
> <html>
> <body>
> 
> <table width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" >
> <tr>
>      <td colspan="2">
>      <%-- Jcorporate logo and icon button menus --%>
>      <tiles:insert attribute="navigation" />
>      </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 
>      <td width="150" >
>      <%-- component menu --%>
>      <tiles:insert attribute="component-menu" />
>      </td>
> 
>      <td>
>      <%-- user content --%>
>      <tiles:insert attribute="body" />
>      </td>
> 
> </tr>
> </table>
> 
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> then you can use the layout in a JSP
> 
> <tiles:insert page="/expresso/templates/AdminDefaultLayout.jsp" >
>     <tiles:put put="navigation"	
> value="/expresso/standard/navigation.jsp" />
>     <tiles:put put="navigation"	
> value="/expresso/standard/component-menu.jsp" />
>     <tiles:put put="navigation"	
> value="/orangetrader/myscreen.jsp" />
> </tiles:insert>
> 
> myscreen.jsp is where I define my body content. How difficult is it?
> 
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