Velocity Views

[Tom Zeller]

>>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

+1

I was going to ask if we were going to target HTML5, sounds like it.

>>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.

+1