[silva-dev] on-the-fly css/js inclusion with Porto Layout

Wed Jun 22 10:21:05 CEST 2011

Hi Sylvain,

Thanks for the reply, hope you're having a great time in Florence.

Jon

On 21 June 2011 10:59, Sylvain VIOLLON <sylvain at infrae.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:14 +0100, "Jonathan Bowlas" <j.bowlas at ucl.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>> Hi Devs,
>>
>
>  Hello,
>
>  Greetings from EuroPython, under the sun of Italia.
>
>> Could someone please explain how I could utilise the 'Injector for
>> on-the-fly css/js inclusion' in the porto mainlayout.pt to inject
>> scripts and stylesheets from a code source? This doesn't appear to be
>> documented anywhere.
>>
>> When using SilvaLayout we did the following:
>>
>> <HTML tal:define="rendered_ucl_content_area
>> context/@@ucl_default_content_area;
>>                   head_content
>> python:'\n'.join(request.other.setdefault('head', []));">
>>  <HEAD>
>>   <tal:block content="structure head_content"/>
>>  </HEAD>
>>  <BODY>
>>   <tal:block metal:define-slot="content" content="structure
>> rendered_ucl_content_area"/>
>>  </BODY>
>> </HTML>
>>
>>
>> Then in our code source we do this:
>> <tal:block define='js string:<script type="text/javascript"
>> src="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/js/jquery/ui.tabs.min.js"></script>' />
>>
>> <tal:block define="zz python:request.other.setdefault('head',
>> []).append(js)"/>
>>
>> So what is the recommended approach now?
>>
>
>
>  We didn't really changed anything about this in 2.3 (we didn't really
>  touch the code sources).
>
>  The head_inject should still work, or the solution you proposed should
>  work as well.
>
>  One of the feature of silva.core.layout is that in your content view,
>  the update method of the content view is called before the layout is
>  rendered (the template). That might help you as well if you are able
>  to collect the needed JS or CSS at that time.
>
>  In 3.0, with the changes we made we will be able to add two new
>  parameters to code sources that will be a list of CSS and JS to
>  include, that will be automatically included in the layout, we now
>  have an architecture that let you do that, solving that long standing
>  problem.
>
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Sylvain
>
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