Minor Description
It would be desirable to support a simplified syntax for obtaining data via bindings and inserting it. A proposal has been to adopt ant-like syntax ("${...}") and interpret the expression within the braces as a binding reference. This would eliminate the need for many Insert components, i.e.:
<h1>${thread.title}</h1>
rather than:
<h1><span jwcid="@Insert" value="thread.title"/></h1>
Or:
${message:prompt}
rather than:
<span key="prompt"/>
This kind of substitution is less invisible, but generally less intrusive, than creating a new component.
Further, the use of the Any component could be reduced via support for:
<img src="${imagePath}"/>
rather than:
<img jwcid="@Any" src="ognl:imagePath"/>
Some questions occur; are the following legal?
<${element}> ... </${element}>
<img jwcid="@Image" src="${asset:foo}"/>
<div ${attribute}="${value}"/>
A final note: these bindings should be treated as we treat informal parameters today; this includes automatically expanding IAssets into their corresponding URLs.