On Fri, July 22, 2005 2:42 pm, Craig McClanahan said: > The standard (HTML centric) set of JSF components was deliberately > designed to use attribute names that are similar to (or identical to) > the HTML attributes that they correspond to. The thinking was that > newcomers to JSF who were using these tags would appreciate that > familiarity.
Makes perfect sense. > A component not in the standard set can, of course, use whatever > attribute names it wants. The component set that comes with Creator 2 > EA, for example, uses "label" for the label of a Button :-). Hey now, don't go giving me any reason to actually WANT to use Creator ;) > Same basic issue, but even more so ... the Struts tags can *only* emit > HTML, so it made the most sense to use attribute names that > corresponded to what was actually getting emitted: > > IN: <html:button ... value="Save" .../> > > OUT: <input type="submit" value="Save" ...> Fair enough, I can't say I wouldn't have made the same decision myself. Thanks for the insight into the thinking. :) > Craig Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
