Hi all,
There are several new & exciting developments in HTML templating land.
First of all, Ryan Kaldari kindly tested the Knockoff / TAssembly HTML templating library from a Mobile perspective [1,2], and summarized his findings on the wiki [3]. The main missing feature he identified was the ability to mark up control flow outside of HTML elements. To address this, I just added support for Knockout's comment syntax to the Knockoff compiler [4]. This turned out to be straightforward, and required no changes in the TAssembly runtime.
Secondly, Dan spotted two very promising developments in upstream KnockoutJS:
== Knockout Components == There's a new version of KnockoutJS coming that might bridge a gap we saw at the architecture summit in January, the one between templating and widget...ing. Knockout components [5,6] could be said bridge, they're basically web components but possible now.
== Curly braces == The other thing they're adding is text interpolation so you can do <span>{{name}}</span> and people don't have to be sad about Knockout's HTML attribute syntax. This can simplify the migration for existing handlebars compatible templates as used by Mobile & Flow.
The KnockoutJS release is currently in early beta [7], with the release expected later this summer.
Gabriel & Dan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/... [2] https://github.com/gwicke/knockoff/, https://github.com/gwicke/tassembly/ [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/... [4] https://github.com/gwicke/knockoff/commit/0e516979c3d1fb35489c58e7b659c3ad0b... [5] http://www.knockmeout.net/2014/06/knockout-3-2-preview-components.html [6] http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2014/06/11/architecting-large-single-page-ap... [7] https://github.com/knockout/knockout/tree/gh-pages-3.2.0