Mooml 1.2.3 – Bye, bye, with()

Eneko Alonso — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:26:54 +0000

Mooml 1.1 was the first version of Mooml that didn’t rely on eval(), a javascript function that causes lot’s of problems when not used properly, but that also prevent minimizers and compilers like Closure to generate valid code.

The new Mooml 1.2.3 release also gets rid of with(), which will no longer be used to render Mooml templates. Instead, templates are prepared when they get registered, so all template tag functions (div(), span(), p()) get replaced by calls to the Mooml engine. Although this means there will be a performance hit when registering templates, it also means templates will render faster. As a plus, template parameter names will no longer conflict with template tag function names. Thus, you can now have a template with a parameter named ‘div’ and the template wont fail rendering.

Download: http://mootools.net/forge/p/mooml
Source: http://github.com/eneko/mooml

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Eneko Alonso — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:56:35 +0000

I’ve been very busy lately, both with spaniards.es and at work. Too much stuff to do. Nevertheless, I’ve been working lately on a version of Mooml that does not rely on with/eval. The problem of using eval (which has bad reputation but is used every time we parse JSON -unless you use this- or load Javascript via AJAX) in Mooml is that it references external variables, something that is not suported by javascript compilers like Google Closure.

So, I got it working, using RegEx, but seems like it is way slower than eval. I have to do some performance testing and do some research to see if there is any way I can improve the performance. Hope to have version 1.1 ready soon.

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