Comments on: ViEmu 1.2 Release Candidate out, & html macro language

By: J

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:31:33 +0000

lena: Thanks thanks thanks thanks!

I’ve had a very brief look at it and it looks exactly like what I was asking for! (Only on steroids, but that’s no problem)

I’m off to download it.

By: lena

lena — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:20:09 +0000

Couldn’t you just use any template language? I used to use cheetah for this (http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/). A template language can do much more than this, of course (don’t let the documentation overwhelm you), but they are usually pretty easy to use for simple tasks.

By: Henrik Jernevad

Henrik Jernevad — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:30:49 +0000

CityDesk (http://www.fogcreek.com/citydesk/) might be a solution to the dynamic/static HTML problem. It’s not a preprocessor but a CMS, but it does what you want.

By: J

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:29:46 +0000

Thanks for the pointer, Christian. I’ve had a looked at both the NCSA httpd SSI documentation and the Apache one (as that is what my hosting service provides). I’m not much of a web administrator, so server-side stuff is a bit scary for me.

OTOH, I still think a static solution is simpler, and I also prefer to have all common sections in one or just a handful of files, instead of having one file per reusable sequence (that way I can comfortably include the latest-version downloadable filename, etc…).

I find it hard to believe nobody’s done or made available a simple stand-alone preprocessor like this before… (I could also use the C/C++ preprocessor! but it’s so kludgy for multiline macros…)

By: Christian Sauer

Christian Sauer — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:14:09 +0000

doh times two!! http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/includes.html

By: Christian Sauer

Christian Sauer — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:13:28 +0000

doh … it swallowed the code is what I had (remove spaces where appropriate)

By: Christian Sauer

Christian Sauer — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:12:28 +0000

Why not just use regular server side include statements?
a simple should do the trick without any complications…

By: J

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:42:33 +0000

Thanks for your comments. Dreamweaver’s price tag is probably way too much for my purpose, and from my knowledge of CityDesk, it is also probably way too much. I’ll probably have a look at CityDesk just in case.

The deal is that I don’t want to lose the control I have when doing the html and css directly.

By: Dimitris Giannitsaros

Dimitris Giannitsaros — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:59:32 +0000

CityDesk also works this way. Check it out (it’s free for 50 pages, but costs $300 for more pages)

By: Ritesh Nadhani

Ritesh Nadhani — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:32:34 +0000

You can use Dreamweavers library option to do that. Even Webyog.com serves static pages (they are better indexed by Google) and we use Libraries with Dreamweaver.