Session
Haml: A Semantic Rebellion in Template Land
Hampton Catlin, Developer, Unspace Interactive
Date: Tuesday, March 27
Time: 5:10pm
- 5:55pm
Location: Douglas A
As new tools like Ruby on Rails allow us to begin questioning habits we've all had for the past decade, semantic web programming is leading the way to the future. This semantic web has nothing to do with
tagging or searching or anything as sexy as that. The semantic we are discussing is the developer's ability to describe his application in a beautifully terse language that creates an abstraction of what is
being represented on the page and creates XHTML from that. The proper use of descriptive class names and id tags across a web application will make the code easier to maintain and easier to design for.
Haml is a new markup language for templates that takes no prisoners when it comes to its unique style of representing an XHTML page in a clean, easily readable, DRY, and designer-friendly fashion. Haml was created as a skunkworks idea and an experiment in creating something *different* than the templates of the last 15 years. It was an answer to the question, "Forgetting everything, how would I like to describe a page of output from my application?"
Find out why Haml is Ruby On Rails' fastest growing template language.... and soon the world!