Re: Dynamic URLs or creating querysets from your URL paths.

Sure you could do that. It's called using XML Transformations (XSLT), Javascript Templatating Engines, or a number of other approaches. 

Django does this with its Template Engine. The reason this isn't completely ran on the Client-Side is because it would be slower, difficult to cache, and dependent upon some specific Client-Side technologies.

Django lets you easily override this behavior. For example, there's documentation on using alternative Templating Engines. You could apply the same methodology to using Client-Side Templating Engines (written in Javascript), or even just displaying XML w/ XSLT using the Browser's Transformation Engine. I'm not really the most experienced person when it comes to Client-Side templates but I'm sure there's a lot out there in Google Land.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Timmy O'Mahony <t.omahony.dublin@gmail.com> wrote:

The more I think about this the more I realize that what I'm talking about IS exactly a REST api.

If I write a phone app, I will code all the presentation layer locally on the phone (client-side) and use json/xml to dynamically fetch data from the server. 

Why isn't this the same for websites? - why isn't the presentation layer completely client-side as opposed to 'a bit of both'?

Ideally when a user requests a webpage from my server, I should deliver the presentation layer to them, along with the information they require to perform an API lookup. From then on they can query my server using the same REST api a phone app would use. This would mean that all the information from EVERY device accessing my website comes from the same api. This is much better then my existing setup, where I might have an API for an app to accompany my site, but I also have a jungle of urls and views to enable a web browser use my site

Am I just repeating/realizing something that is well know and catered for? 

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