[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: haste-perch

[Andrew Gibiansky]

Could you elaborate on how this is better/different from blaze-html?

I'm a bit confused - is it just the same thing but works with Haste, while
blaze-html doesn't? What's the main idea?

Thanks!
Andrew


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Alberto G. Corona <agocorona at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> haste-perch defines builder elements (perchs) for Haste.DOM elements that
> are appendable, so that dynamic HTML can be created in the client in a
> natural way, like textual HTML, but programmatically and with the advantage
> of static type checking. It can be ported to other haskell-js compilers.
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haste-perch
>
> This program, when compiled with haste:
>
>   main= do
>    withElem "idelem" $   build $ do
>    div $ do
>      div $ do
>            p "hello"
>            p ! atr "style" "color:red" $   "world"
>
>    return ()
>
> Creates these element:
>
>    <div id= "idelem">  <-- was already in the HTML
>        <div>
>          <div>
>             <p> hello </p>
>             <p style= "color:red"> world </p>
>          </div>
>        </div>
>    </div>
>
> Since the creation is in the browser, that permit quite dynamic pages for
> data
> presentation, and interctive textual (a.k.a "serious") applications and,
> in general
> the development of client-side web frameworks using haskell with the haste
> compiler.
>
>
> See the README in the git repository:
>
> https://github.com/agocorona/haste-perch
>
> --
> Alberto.
>
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