RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Karr, David
> -Original Message- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:32 AM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: RE: LabelTag > backwards compatibility in this way). The W3C spec for is the > about the worst example

Re: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 12:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: LabelTag > > > I think your suggestion on having one struts tag that emits any input type > (like the html spec) is very flawed. Consider how hu

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread David Graham
st" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: 'Struts Developers List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: LabelTag >Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:24:56 -0400 > >I guess we have a difference of opinion. > >I care about the tld's because they take time getting them correct

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Edgar Dollin wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:24:56 -0400 > From: Edgar Dollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Struts Developers List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: L

Re: RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Ted Husted
10/15/2002 1:04:54 PM, Edgar Dollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Of course if this is obsolete, then my apologies for wasting everyone's time >:-(. Whether or not these tags become obsolete is a matter of whether anyone wants to continue using and improving them. Right now, a lot of people seem

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Edgar Dollin
built to handle the input html object. Thanks for your commentary. Edgar -Original Message- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: LabelTag I think your suggestion on having one struts tag that emits any in

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Edgar Dollin
> I think XDoclet is cool, but the issue here is not extra tags -- it's > extra attributes. One of our primary design principles is that Struts > tags would only contain attributes that correspond to valid attribute > names (for that particular element) in HTML/4.01 -- whether the browser > ignor

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread David Graham
er have to see the tlds. Even without 2.3, it's trivial to put struts-*.tld files in your /WEB-INF directory. David >From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Struts Developers List &

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Edgar Dollin wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:12:12 -0400 > From: Edgar Dollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Struts Developers List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Labe

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, edgar wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:10:32 -0400 > From: edgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: 'Struts Developers List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sub

Re: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
form > to the spec. > > Now, if we could get XDoclet to handle that... ;-) > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > >>-Original Message- >>From: Edgar Dollin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:22 AM >>To: 'Struts Deve

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Edgar Dollin
entries). If the struts tags were constructed in a fashion which matched the html spec, then many of the issues with excess tags would go away. -Original Message- From: Martin Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:43 AM To: 'Struts Develope

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Martin Cooper
Struts Developers List' > Subject: RE: LabelTag > > > The number of missing attributes in the tag libraries is > large enough to > consider > a change, especially since writing tag libraries is one of the most > pleasurable > parts of what we do ;-). > > Edga

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Edgar Dollin
The number of missing attributes in the tag libraries is large enough to consider a change, especially since writing tag libraries is one of the most pleasurable parts of what we do ;-). Edgar. > I do highly encourage the Struts committers to use XDoclet for TLD and > documentation generation (

Re: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
edgar wrote: > It would really be nice :-) to add object orientation to the tld as the > amount of time spent debugging missing / incorrect tld's is larger than > it should be. Also, the ability to specify default values would be nice > as well. > > My idea would be something like > > >

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread edgar
Edgar -Original Message- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:48 AM To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: LabelTag Ted Husted wrote: > Maybe we could use this as the basis for a "how to extend taglibs" bit > for the user guide.

Re: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
Ted Husted wrote: > Maybe we could use this as the basis for a "how to extend taglibs" bit for the user >guide. Yeah, except that my extension of MessageTag is only temporary, unless we see a need to support all the other attributes. Currently we only are using 'key', and thats the only one

Re: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Ted Husted
Maybe we could use this as the basis for a "how to extend taglibs" bit for the user guide. -T. 10/15/2002 4:43:20 AM, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jean-Noel Ribette wrote: >> Erik, >> >> You might want to have a look at the struts-layout taglib hosted at >> http://struts.applica

Re: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
Jean-Noel Ribette wrote: > Erik, > > You might want to have a look at the struts-layout taglib hosted at > http://struts.application-servers.com > This opens source library implements (nearly) all the functionality you > described here, and much more ! Cool - I've looked at that library before

Re: LabelTag

2002-10-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
Martin Cooper wrote: > I like the idea. I do see a couple of problems, however. > > * You are presumably defining the juxtaposition of the label, the colon, the > asterisk, and the input field, in the tag itself. This, I think, would be > rather specific to the layout you have in mind. Yes. We

Re: LabelTag

2002-10-14 Thread Jean-Noel Ribette
Erik, You might want to have a look at the struts-layout taglib hosted at http://struts.application-servers.com This opens source library implements (nearly) all the functionality you described here, and much more ! If you intend to share your code, I'm very interesting in the part checking i

RE: LabelTag

2002-10-14 Thread Martin Cooper
I like the idea. I do see a couple of problems, however. * You are presumably defining the juxtaposition of the label, the colon, the asterisk, and the input field, in the tag itself. This, I think, would be rather specific to the layout you have in mind. * The use of a trailing colon is very mu