DOMBuilder

Here's another one I did: https://github.com/insin/DOMBuilder/ It also allows you to generate HTML strings from the same code and create templates, with template inheritance, using the same sort of syntax.

I have a library for this sort of thing (but without the HAML-style # and . niceties :-/) which can also output DOM Elements or HTML (escaped by default) from the same code by flipping its output mode: https://github.com/insin/DOMBuilder The output modes are implemented as plugins, so you can also add other sorts of things, like the template mode I'm in the progress of writing, with template inheritance and the like. Bretthopper's comment about the readability is spot on, though - you have to start using comma-first pretty quickly or you will go mad getting commas in the right places, and you're never going to get a designer writing these things. The good thing about it is that since your templates are written in code, it's trivial to share them between client and server - this example app can also be clones and run on Node.js, which uses

Sure there are - why are so many Crockford pronouncements taken as a signal to stop thinking? Notice that his "with is bad" examples (which are usually bad examples and bad usages [1]) always involve contrived examples of potentially ambiguous assignment - one of the more useful ways to use `with` is with objects whose properties are DSL-like functions, named in such a way that there's no mistaking their origin and with no ambiguous assignment involved. Simple example with includes: https://github.com/insin/DOMBuilder/blob/master/examples/red... More extensive example of inheritable templates for a CRUD admin app: https://github.com/insin/sacrum/blob/master/lib/sacrum/admin... [1] http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2009/12/with-worlds-most-m...