Hello,
I'am just starting to implement a little web application with the sunet
server. The documentation and the code examples of surflets are quite
helpful, but there are also some limititations:
My general objection is that there is no comprehensible separation
between logic and layout in the surflets. I mean something like the so
called "Modell View Control' design pattern. May be it is just a matter
of insufficient documentation in this respect.
To give an example:
Just by accident (i.e. by scanning some example code) I figured out how
to set the width of a text input field with the function
make-text-field. But for instance I have no clue how to manipulate
layout in the "surflet-form" function. I am not asking for special case
problems, I am rather interested in the general concept concerning
layout encoding inside the surflet functions.
Moreover I have problems with "get-bindings": Appearently I can't use it
to retrieve some hardcoded key-value pairs. get-bindings seems to
support only generated key-value pairs (e.g. generated by make-text-field).
Right now I see only these two alternatives:
1) Use surflet build in functions like surflet-form => unclear how to
influence the layout
2) Hardcode html => how do I get bindings?
I certainly would appriciate more documentation in this respect.
Thanks,
Immanuel
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