Re: [Haskell-beginners] Web frameworks

I know that haml[1], sass[2] and CoffeeScript[3] that are used quite commonly in the ruby community for generating html, css and javascript respectively. I believe Yesod's primary motivation for using 'special' templates is the ability to make static guarantees about wether URLs, etc are valid, but they also alleviate some code repetition. I'd actually be very happy if Yesod supported the syntax from haml, etc, as it would be one less syntax to learn (not that the options offered take long to learn) and these languages are quite nice to write in. -- [1] http://haml-lang.com/ [2] http://sass-lang.com/ [3] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Christopher Done wrote:

On 17 June 2011 16:49, Haisheng Wu wrote:

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Actually I have one question that what's the reason it has 'special' (a better word?) style at programming CSS and JavaScripts? Seems like no other frameworks doing that? (Correct me if I am wrong)

You don't really need a framework to do CSS https://github.com/chrisdone/amelie/blob/master/src/Amelie/View/Style.hs or JavaScript https://github.com/chrisdone/amelie/blob/master/src/Amelie/View/Script.hs in a first-class Haskell DSL. The benefit is that you can manipulate both at a kind of macro level, and benefit from Haskell's type system if you wish to make your JavaScript or CSS type-safe. _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners