Making WooMe (tiny javascript templating)

About the making of WooMe.com

So I said, narrow the focus.
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student
living in the dorms.
How will this software get him laid? - jwz

link tiny javascript templating

We’ve released our tiny templating language (calling it a language really is a stretch) as a jquery plugin.

We don’t actually use the plugin because it’s simpler to just include it in your js:

    function tache(template, ctx) {
        var t = template;
        while (true) {
            var res = t.replace(
                    /{{(.*?)}}/,
                function (matched,p1,offset,src) { return ctx[p1]; }
            );
            if (res == t) {
                break;
            }
            t = res;
        }
        return t;
    }

An example of usage?

    function popup(popup_name, data) {
        data.popup_name = popup_name;
        $("body").prepend(
           elpad.tache("<div id='{{popup_name}}' class='popup hidden'>\
    <h3>Login</h3><form method='POST' action='{{action}}'>\
    <input type='text' name='username' value=''/>\
    <button name='login'>login</button></form>\
    <div></div></div>", data);
       );
    }