[Chicago] Forms + widget support layer
Garrett Smith
g at rrett.us.com
Fri Nov 21 18:01:03 CET 2008
Yep, that's the one!
I'm just going to start referring to Ian as "the Dude".
To quote:
Sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause what's a hero?
But sometimes, there's a man – and I'm talkin' about the Dude
here – sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time
and place. He fits right in there.
----- "Cosmin Stejerean" <cstejerean at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Garrett Smith < g at rrett.us.com > wrote:
>
> I'm in the market for a light weight component that sits somewhere between inbound HTTP requests and page/HTML generation that provides stuff like this:
>
> * Encoding and decoding of widget/field values to and from HTTP/HTML land
> * Field value validation
> * Form validation
> * Enough flexibility to support custom HTML+JavaScript widgets
> * Light weight controller facility
> * Not tied to a particular templating engine
>
> z3c.forms is very much in this vein, but seems to come with sundry other z3 baggage. Maybe this isn't as bad as it sounds.
>
> ToscaWidgets kinda does this.
>
> And of course, Django has this sort of thing built in.
>
> I'm looking for something along the lines of Webob -- stand alone, very light touch, but without enough support to make my life coding forms and integrating widgets much easier.
>
> Garrett
>
>
> Formencode?
> --
> Cosmin Stejerean
> http://www.offbytwo.com
>
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