state management plug-in idea

[Colin Clark]

Jacob,

On 15-Aug-08, at 2:27 PM, Jacob Farber wrote:

> Maybe I'm misunderstanding the Template Renderer, but should all  
> this logic be handled by the templating system?


In this case, we're talking about dynamic states for a component. The  
template renderer's job is to bind data to a static template in order  
to generate the markup needed by a component. This is generally done  
at initialization time or at key moments during the component's  
lifecycle.

States will change and be manipulated as a product of user interaction  
with the component. In other words, dynamically. So managing state and  
their appearance in the DOM is not really a job for the renderer, but  
rather an API available to component Views.

Colin

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org