The css tricks you linked are shady towards cross-browser compliance. Using XUL on a website just to have it working in firefox? No, thank you.
What about serving plain text or actually any kind of non-html content? Why would I use CSS there? How far are you going to go just to prove that every single person who has ever asked for a "truncate filter" is wrong? because there's a hell of a lot of them. J. Leclanche / Adys On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> What I haven't seen yet for this filter is a clear use case. If > >> you're just trying to get something working quickly, then slice is > >> fine. When you're ready to go back and do it right, then the optimal > >> solution is to use CSS [1]. If you only want to truncate at word > >> boundaries, then you'll just use truncate_words. What requirement > >> does a truncate filter satisfy that these other solutions don't? > >> > >> [1] http://mattsnider.com/css/css-string-truncation-with-ellipsis/ > >> > >> Ian > > > > Then perhaps you should read the past few mails, I've given 5 different > use > > cases. > > J. Leclanche / Adys > > All of which could be handled just as well or better using CSS, unless > there's something I'm missing, which is the reason I asked. > > Ian > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
