Chapter 3.5. Understanding Kid and TurboGears Views
TurboGears uses the Kid templating system to do all the formatting and display logic work that comprises the view section of the MVC paradigm. If you are used to PHP, Cheetah, JSP, or ASP, you’ll quickly notice that Kid has its own way of doing things. But if you stick around long enough, you’ll notice several important advantages to the Kid way.
First of all, if you work with a designer, she’ll fall in love with you right away when you show her how she can open up Kid templates easily in Firefox or Dreamweaver.
On the other hand, if you’re not lucky enough to work with a great designer, perhaps you’d like to use Dreamweaver, Nvu, or some other WYSIWYG tool to edit your designs yourself ...
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