Re: [Rails] Re: Remote Layout

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:38 AM, doug <ddjolley@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking of a given web page as being composed of 2 parts: (1)
> The substantive content; and, (2) a wrapper (the layout) which
> surrounds the substantive content and provides (among other things)
> the navigation and a style sheet affecting the styling of the
> substantive content.  Now suppose that other web sites exist that
> would like to include the substantive content on their site by linking
> to it; but, these sites would like to have the substantive content
> included within their own wrapper (layout) so that they could control
> the navigation and stylings.

Overall, I think it would be both easier and more effective for such
sites to just retrieve the substantive content through a web service
interface and embed it into their own layout.

But what the hey -- develop a prototype and send it out to play :-)

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Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder@gmail.com
twitter: @hassan

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