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- I stumbled upon Declan Sciolla-Lynch's most excellent XPages tutorial, which is scattered all over his blog, but *very* comprehensive and thorough. Serious kudos on a job well done! IBM should pay to have that repackaged into a sanctioned online tutorial.
- It's obvious going through it that XPages are NOT intended to be a visual design system, for not one single thing in that tutorial, starting with the very first XPage in Part 1, renders in Designer even remotely like it does in a browser. The rendering between DDE and a browser are about as similar as apples and golf carts.
- I was somehow given the expectation that XPages DO employ visual design, such that DDE is a "WYSIWYG" editor where the developer does layout and code simultaneously, and the compiled product very closely if not exactly mimics the IDE. I was most likely given this impression by the "Site Finder Demo", which comes across significantly more "visual" than Declan Sciolla-Lynch's tutorial.
- It's perfectly fine that DDE isn't visual, but it's unpleasant to quite strongly be given the impression that it is, then spend hours and hours trying to figure out why patently simple things "won't render correctly".
- An explicit "DDE isn't a visual design tool" would have saved enormous amounts of time and frustration.
Feedback response number WEBB7SWK75 created by ~Holly Zekhipisonnivu on 06/11/2009
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