Anybody else *dissing* FormHandler? We've started developing based on FormHandler lately and haven't had troubles... yet?
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > I can recommend *against* HTML-FormHandler. > > For my day job's Perl and Catalyst project, we initially decided to go with > HTML-FormHandler, only to discover it was buggy, quirky and had severe > memory > leaks. We ended up doing many workarounds and recently made a transition > from > it to HTML-FormFu, which while by no means perfect, is much saner. > > My co-worker "nothingmuch" who has done many of the workarounds can provide > further comments on it. Recently I had to over-ride a role in the login > form > (for which we need to use HTML-FormHandler due to CatalystX::SimpleLogin) > that > will accept an empty string as the 'action=""' attribute because it only > placed true values of the attribute there, which ruled out empty strings. > But > I recall many other fun hours debugging HTML-FormHandler. > > Stay away if you can. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism > > <rindolf> She's a hot chick. But she smokes. > <go|dfish> She can smoke as long as she's smokin'. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > -- Failure is not important. How you overcome it, is. -- Nick Vujicic
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