> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:28:37 +0100, Nico Klasens > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know. I would not see much reason to introduce such a > > > backwards incompatibility. Of course, it could be > justified if one > > > finds the spaces actually meaningful in some situation. > But no-one > > > ever complaint about that... > > > > Okay I will complain. I don't like jsp pages and I really hate > > unreadible ones. Whitespace in attributes can improve > readability and I love that. > > I actually meant complaining about the inverse: the > impossibility to produce [" ", " a", " b"], about one could > complain with some right.
Of course, you wanted me to complain about that one, but that wouldn't have been fun. :-) You already explained why it should work the old way. > I don't hate jsp-pages, at least not the jsp-aspect of it. (IE > compatible) html and CSS, those yes ;-) Html, css and javascript are just one of the many output types and they make web development "really interssting". I don't dislike jsp for that. I don't dislike jsp for the aspect that they generate ugly servlet out.println's from readable files. What I dislike about them is the way some people use them for. Some web applications consist only of jsp's with many functionality hidden in includes which could have been in a nice OO-structure. Java, and OO in general, makes life much easier to understand what an application does and some (jsp-)developers throw all that out of the window. But actually this is not only a problem of jsp, but for every programming technology. Another issue with jsp is that you are allowed to do too many things. Xslt for example can't change the data of the xml. It can only translate the xml to something else. This limits the usage and forces a separation between manipulation and presentation. Nico ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- There can never be a computer language in which you cannot write a bad program. _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
