Tuesday 13th March 2007
Meeting at 19:30 - location: namics Zürich @ Konradstrasse 12. Verrrrry close to the main station and tram stop Shilquai #4 and #12.
Drinks at Tant Pis, just down the road (Kitchen open till 10pm)
Agenda
Title
Website Meta Language – Webseiten generieren nach Unix-Art by Axel
(Talk will probably be in English, slides will be in German.)
Slide online at: http://noone.org/wml/wml-webtuesday.html
Abstract
Dynamic web pages are "in" nowadays, but often it's only a waste of cpu time and memory resources because seldomly every page on a website is really dynamic. Some of them just change from time to time and inbetween every request shows exactly the same page, but is generated dynamically every time just because of a consistent design.
The Website Meta Language (WML, not to confuse with the Wireless or the Wesnoth Markup Language) is a Unix (and since recently also Windows) toolkit for easiley generating static HTML pages using macros and filters. It is implemented as a bunch of filters, used in one big and mighty pipe (think commandline) as well as a make-like tool for only updating what needs to be updated. WML "generates HTML the way real hackers always wanted to".