Am 30.05.2012 17:51, schrieb Damon Courtney: > And that's my point. If it matters, YOU should pass -id X instead of letting > us generate one. In other words: > > set f [form #auto] ; > > $f checkbox foo -label Foo ; ## Note, I don't care about an ID here. > $f checkbox bar -label Bar ; ## Don't care about this one either. > $f checkbox moo -label Moo -id bar-checkbox ; ## I'm going to style this or > use Javascript, so I need its ID. > > If you are letting US auto generate IDs and then using those in your CSS and > JS, you're a bad, bad developer. One, tiny change to your HTML, and your > shit is busted. If you rejiggered your form to move Bar above Foo, you just > screwed up their ID you were relying on. > > The documentation should say that if you don't give us a -id, we'll > auto-generate one that is unique. That's it. We can give people rope to > hang themselves, but we don't have to put it around their neck and give them > a push.
I agree. I would document the way autogenerated IDs are build, e.g. say, that they always start with "autogen". Thank you, Harald --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: rivet-dev-unsubscr...@tcl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: rivet-dev-h...@tcl.apache.org
