Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-12 Thread Colin Sharples
: Subject: Re: Freetext attribute for all tags... 12/12/2001 11:29 Please respond

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-12 Thread Arron Bates
(I do apologise for this post. It should stop. But for some reason I just can't handle misrepresentation of trying to get markup to work in the largest amount of browsers possible (both those inside and outside the spec). So, if you don't want to hear a rant in reply to a rant, read another

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-12 Thread Colin Sharples
] onkey.com cc: Subject: Re: Freetext attribute for all tags... 13/12/2001 13:03

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Arron Bates
) - Original Message - From: Arron Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 11:27 PM Subject: Freetext attribute for all tags... Idea... There was just that too and fro in additional properties needed on html:image... bug

Re[2]: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Oleg V Alexeev
Hello Ted, It is interesting situation now... 8)) I think it was in some letters before - a number of words about 'custom' or 'literal' attribute. But only after commit we have a some kind of discussion in list... 8) Yes, of course, may be my activity is wrong - I think that 'right' solution

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Ted Husted
A product change, like adding the freetext attribute, is subject to lazy consensus. You have the right to make the change, and any other committer has the right to veto it. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/decisions.html People often announce a short-term plans, not so much because we have to,

Re[2]: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Oleg V Alexeev
Hello Ted, Ok. How can I revert changes? Is there are any standart way to do so with CVS? If no then I'l retrieve previous file versions, resave it and commit to CVS. Is it right? Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 2:46:16 PM, you wrote: TH A product change, like adding the freetext attribute, is

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Ted Husted
I'm sure there would be a way to rollback the CVS; Craig or Martin may know more about that. But, since there haven't been any other changes here, the simplest thing, as you said, might be to retrieve the prior versions from a nightly build, and paste those over the current version, and commit

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Jon Wall
] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 11:27 PM Subject: Freetext attribute for all tags... Idea... There was just that too and fro in additional properties needed on html:image... bug in that there was the argument over what to support and what not to support... if there was a standard

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jon Wall wrote: Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:24:58 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Freetext attribute for all tags... Amen

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Ted Husted
Jon Wall wrote: Do you want Struts to be a framework for building just mass-market web sites (portals, ecommerce, etc)?? It's my personal feeling that we are providing the tag extensions as a convenience, and that they are ancilliary to the actual framework. I think this will become more

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Colin Sharples
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like the top priority of web development and this list in particular has become complying with standards. While I agree that is important and we've shot ourselves in the foot before, I think we're forgetting that the absolute number one priority in any UI

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Arron Bates
It's all reality. Standards and non-compliant realities alike. Take the new DOM scripting model... NS copied IE in the getElementById()... why... because it's truly sweet. But it's not in the spec. It's an example where the spec is not as good as the implementation. W3C are recommendations,

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Speed
I hate to do me toos, but I've been trying to put my feelings into words and this is as close to my thoughts as anything I've written down. Just wanted Colin to know he isn't hanging in the wind. ;) -Paul Colin Sharples wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like the top priority of web

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Oleg V Alexeev
Hello Arron, I add such attribute to the tags - Button Cancel Checkbox File Hidden Image Img Link Multibox Password Radio Reset Select Submit Textarea Text Now all non supported by struts attributes can be added to the target tag via 'freetext' attribute. This attribute contents will directly

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Ted Husted
Is freetext all right with everyone, or should we use something like literal custom or verbatim It's just that I feel we have not paid close enough attention to the naming of things in the past, and we might want measure twice before we document this. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com,

Re[2]: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Oleg V Alexeev
Hello Ted, [+1] 'custom' Monday, December 10, 2001, 2:02:01 PM, you wrote: TH Is freetext all right with everyone, or should we use something like TH literal TH custom TH or TH verbatim TH It's just that I feel we have not paid close enough attention to the TH naming of things in the

RE: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Tom Klaasen (TeleRelay)
-Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: maandag 10 december 2001 12:02 To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Freetext attribute for all tags... Is freetext all right with everyone, or should we use something like literal custom or verbatim It's

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Will Jaynes
[+1] literal - Original Message - From: Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 6:02 AM Subject: Re: Freetext attribute for all tags... Is freetext all right with everyone, or should we use something like literal

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Arron
: Freetext attribute for all tags... Is freetext all right with everyone, or should we use something like literal custom or verbatim It's just that I feel we have not paid close enough attention to the naming of things in the past, and we might want measure twice before we document

Re[2]: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Oleg V Alexeev
Hello Ted, So, votes for naming of free style attribute for html tags - literal - 2 freetext - 1.5 (already extst) custom - 1 Any other votes or variants? If nothing then it will became 'literal'. Monday, December 10, 2001, 2:02:01 PM, you wrote: TH Is freetext all right with everyone, or

Re: Re[2]: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread David Winterfeldt
I like literal out of the three listed. A static or staticText field would be the only other ideas I have for naming. David --- Oleg V Alexeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ted, So, votes for naming of free style attribute for html tags - literal - 2 freetext - 1.5 (already extst)

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Arron Bates wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:27:42 +1100 From: Arron Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Freetext attribute for all tags... Idea... There was just that too

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Ted Husted
Can we let it ride for a week, to see what else comes up? I appreciate input from the developers, but we might want to also see what the other committers have to say. I also just thought of another one: output - since that is what we are really doing, outputting something into the body of

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Arron Bates
I really think questions of compliance and properness are out of context in all truth. You get Html outside that of the struts tags... let's say... 96% of the markup are you're in the most free text you've ever seen in your life. You aint seen the fun of free markup until you've left off a

Re: Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-10 Thread Martin Cooper
. What should we do now? 2) name collisions 3) syntax validation 4) duplication 5) XHTML (need to ignore when value is set) - Original Message - From: Arron Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 11:27 PM Subject: Freetext attribute

Freetext attribute for all tags...

2001-12-09 Thread Arron Bates
Idea... There was just that too and fro in additional properties needed on html:image... bug in that there was the argument over what to support and what not to support... if there was a standard property (ie: freetext, freeform, uglytext or something) where developers could add a string to