Posted by
Nick
on
2009-09-18
at
8:34 AM
I was speaking to a PHP developer recently on the architecture of their web applications, out of morbid curiosity. We were discussing templating systems, and found out that they created theirs in house. It was a coded document, with classes defined for each entity, and they'd load up an object with the proper properties, stream it out to the processor, and it would generate the page. They would then have the designers just write CSS to make the markup do what they wanted it to do.
I had never heard of this before, and to me, that sounds horrible. You have a huge cost for all of that object creation, and then you have to find a web developer who is willing to only use CSS.
Anyone else do something similar?
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programming
design
php