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Hi Yehuda, Thanks for another great open-source tool! I m looking to switch from Mustache to Handlebars for some of the cool path and helper additions but mostly for the speed increase thanks to use ...

jcf opened Sep 10, 2010
3 comments

Hi Wycats, I ve created issue #1 and think I might have fixed the problem but I don t profess to fully understand all of the intricacies of Handlebars so may have only made things worse. Plus, my commit ...

jcf opened Sep 10, 2010
1 comment
handlebars-lang:master jcf:master

In FF 3.6.9 the example template doesn t render the nested data structures and the unit tests fail on test 3 onwards.

led opened Sep 11, 2010
2 comments
IE is fun (#4)

Hey, I was testing with IE and it complained about unterminated strings in the generated function, this seemed to fix it.

DohMoose opened Sep 12, 2010
4 comments
handlebars-lang:master DohMoose:master

Block helper functions aren t able to call get or fn as functions don t seem to survive the contextWrapper. Tested in FF, Chrome and Safari. From the example function... this.get is not a function [Break ...

led opened Sep 13, 2010
3 comments
License (#6)

I m looking at using Handlebars.js in a product at my day-job. Unfortunately, I ve got to get permission from legal, and they won t bless its use without a license. Is there a particular license you re ...

stabbylambda opened Sep 14, 2010
2 comments

when evaluating a block, handlebars fails if there is no content. eg {{#my_list}}{{/my_list}} or {{^my_list}}{{/my_list}} Not sure if this is a bug, but it would be nice to be able to do.

led opened Sep 15, 2010
5 comments

Includes test case. See commit message for more details.

jasondavies opened Sep 18, 2010
handlebars-lang:master jasondavies:master

I can see the thinking behind this: backslashes are JavaScript-escaped so that data inserted into JavaScript code aren t messed up. However, for my particular use-case I don t actually want backslashes ...

jasondavies opened Sep 18, 2010
2 comments

Includes test case :-)

jasondavies opened Sep 20, 2010
2 comments
handlebars-lang:master jasondavies:master