How to choose a client template engine
Posted by: More Whidbey stuff,
on 05 Feb 2009 |
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Disclaimer: I worked on the Microsoft Ajax 4.0 template engine, so my criteria are of course heavily influenced by our own design. Templates are a data rendering method that server-side developers have enjoyed since the old days of classic ASP and PHP. The idea was quite simple (add code blocks and dynamic expressions directly into HTML markup) but it revolutionized web development, which before that relied on the opposite method (spitting HTML from CGI code). On the client-side, the browser...