The helpers are useful if you need to do server-side DOM parsing (
http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/05#Server-side-DOM-and-Parsing) --
otherwise, I suppose it's a matter of preference. I think the URL function
is generally recommended, particularly if there's a chance you might need to
do any URL rewriting.
Anthony
On Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:02:29 PM UTC-4, pbreit wrote:
> What are people's thoughts on using HTML tags vs plain HTML? I'm thinking
> of going more towards pure HTML. Will I be losing anything major?
>
> For example:
>
> <a href="/item/{{=item.id}}">{{=item.title}}</a>
>
> {{=A(item.title, _href=URL('default', 'item', extension='', args=item.id
> ))}}
>
