Adam Fortuna created a post on a technique to automatically assign default views to your application, which is very very interesting. I also posted an alternate way of assigning default views/layouts to even any handler by just creating and implementing a preHandler or postHandler method on your handler. Great Snippet Adam!!
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Jun 12, 2007 22:16:38 UTC
by ziggy
why not just have a default view/handler config setting?