I thought about this a lot, believe me. Is it right to allow a template to have so much control? The side effect of not having it is, designers can't do anything without a back-end programmer.
Instead, Forward aims to make templates expressive and easy to understand by anyone. Time will tell if this causes problems, but for the projects we've built with it over the last year, it has been good and easy to maintain as there is no procedural connection between template/back-end.
Instead, Forward aims to make templates expressive and easy to understand by anyone. Time will tell if this causes problems, but for the projects we've built with it over the last year, it has been good and easy to maintain as there is no procedural connection between template/back-end.