Re: {% spaceless %} abuse (?)

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 21:15:40 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee
> <russell@keith-magee.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.django.user:
>
>> I'm sorry? I don't understand what you're driving at here. What is it
>> that HomeSite does that contradicts what I said?
>>
> HomeSite is (was, since Adobe killed it) an HTML editor... No
> WYSIWYG layout tools -- while it has "tag editors" (which are dialogs
> with fields for all the standard attributes of a tag), the editor itself
> was raw HTML...

Firstly, I fail to see how an editor that had it's last release (v5.5)
in 2003, and was discontinued in 2009, qualifies as a "modern tool".

Secondly, vim, Emacs, and any other text editor will also operate on
raw HTML. It's hardly a revolutionary concept. I didn't say that
humans *didn't* read or edit HTML. What I said is that *modern* tools
are trending towards using the DOM. Once upon a time, you'd use "view
source" to debug rendering problems. In that world, extra whitespace
could be annoying. These days, you open your DOM inspector, and then
go back to your template to fix any problems you find. In that
context, extra whitespace in the source is irrelevant.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

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