Edgar,
Just for the record, I agree with your sentiment about the Struts HTML
tags. styleClass drives me nuts! But I don't have time to change it,
much less deal with the backwards compatibility issues the committers
would demand of such a change :) so, I just deal with it and work with
whats there.
And like Ted said, JSTL is where the taglib work should be done, except
for Struts-specific tags, so when things are being refactored we should
lobby for HTML attributes to be supported with no name changes and
anything that is Struts-specific should have a different attribute name,
rather than renaming an HTML attribute.
But, we're off topic :)
Erik
Edgar Dollin wrote:
> I guess we have a difference of opinion.
>
> I care about the tld's because they take time getting them correct and I
> have an explosion of entries in my projects. Also, the struts tld's (at
> least in 1.0.2) are missing attributes. HTML and all the other languages we
> use are hard enough to learn and get effective with, using consistent syntax
> much less inconsistent syntax. Yes there are differences and the class
> would be slightly larger than normal but it wouldn't be unmanageable and
> with clever syntactic analysis would not be much larger. After all the
> browser has to be 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
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> Subject: RE: LabelTag
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> I think your suggestion on having one struts tag that emits any input type
> (like the html spec) is very flawed. Consider how huge that one tag would
> be if it knew how to output text, textarea, radio, checkbox, submit, and
> password fields. Each of the struts input tags have features unique to them
>
> and deserve to be separate.
>
> Also, the struts tags need attributes for html AND beans, properties, etc.
> That's why you see attributes like styleClass instead of class.
>
> Who cares how many tld entries there are? This is a non-issue, especially
> in servlet 2.3 where you don't ever have to see the tlds.
>
> Even without 2.3, it's trivial to put struts-*.tld files in your /WEB-INF
> directory.
>
> David
>
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