Velocity Views

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/22/14, 7:40 AM, "Marvin Addison" <marvin.addison at gmail.com> wrote:

>I noticed that the velocity views declare an xhtml doctype and use
>html tags like <header> and <footer>. As far as I know those tags are
>only valid in html5, and I would recommend going with html5 views
>anyway since that's where the center of mass is these days. I'm happy
>to take on this task and html conformance generally if you'd like.

+1

>I'd also like to suggest an improvement: add the Spring Environment
>object to the Velocity context. We have a use case to do tier-specific
>environment lookups for data (commonly URLs) used in views, and I
>would imagine that's a fairly common deployer use case in general.

Fine with me.

-- Scott