A change in mind about presentation *Part 2*
With all said in Part 1 below, I decided to give Presentation another fair go (as most Aussies would say), and I have to say I am have been pretty excited about it. To my personal dismay, it’s actually highly addictive. The stylesheets used totally changed the appearance of my blog presentation engine, and it looks great!!! The borders, different fonts, and Rail’s perfect use of ErB allows stylesheets to be conveniently placed in the display markup-code (since it is a mixbag of html and Ruby code now…so technically I think this is accurate). There’s a even a plugin from Mozilla where you can use (it’s called Web Developer) to “learn” from the templates all over the web.
The integration of FCKEditor (thank’s to Scott Rutherford ) into Rails make everything complete for a blog engine. Now I am looking into using AJAX (haha, another AJAX convert on the rise) to improve interactivity in my blog, with the possibility of some eye-candiness help from the folks at Script.aculo.us .
The rise of Microsoft Silverlight and JavaFX will change the whole web experience with apps built with scalable vector graphics (wow…more eye-candiness). In fact, some people believe that it will actually replace AJAX itself in the not so distant future.
With all the mention of eye-candiness, it’s time to go out for lunch and grab a candy-bar on the way back. Stay tuned for more posts on Presentation as I discover more.
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