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Re:Brackets, a code editor by Tloewald on Thursday February 06, 2014 @07:29PM (#7193949)
We use bog standard HTML with custom data- attributes (whose intention is pretty much obvious) and our binding library automagically populates it. So the learning-curve for people joining the project is basically... "do you know HTML?"

Want a span to show the live content of foo.bar.baz? <span data-source="foo.bar.baz"></span>.

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Re:Brackets, a code editor by michaelbuddy on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:24AM (#7196604)
great idea here. love it. is there an example out there of these 'bindings' that somebody with strong html / css but weak javascript skills would be able to grasp and implement into a site?
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Re:Brackets, a code editor by sourpoi on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:17AM (#7200664)
You may be interested in TAL/ZPT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language
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Re:Brackets, a code editor by Tloewald on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:35PM (#7204392)
Our system is intentionally much simpler than this -- the idea being that if it becomes like a "language" people will do stupid things in it that need to be debugged.
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Re:Brackets, a code editor by Tloewald on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:34PM (#7204389)
We're supposedly open-sourcing our codebase (it's for a Federal government project) but the process of deciding the licensing seems to be interminable (yes, shocking I know).
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