Every time we're running into syntax discussions (see 'replacing OGNL') I feel that Wicket is deviating from the Java way.
I think all the following suggestions would better be left unimplemented: <input wicket:message="value=my-key" type=.../> <input wicket:message="value=my-key, class=another-key..."/> <input value="message:key=my-key" type="..." /> <span wicket:message="my-key">...</span> <p wicket:message="$=greeting, class=greeting-class">Hello.</p> This is leaning in the direction of Tapestry (with special $prefixes) or real attribute languages (http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/AttributeLanguage). TAL is great but Wicket's main selling point is (and should stay) Java. Every input field has a Wicket component anyway, so the origin of their attribute values should be in Java models, attribute modifiers or behaviours - not in HTML. The initial request for easier 18n of static labels was valid: <wicket:message key="myKey">Default Message</wicket:message> IMHO this is striking similar to our auto linking tag: <wicket:link autolink="true"> ... </wicket:link> Anything else is opening a can of worms. Just my 2 cents Sven >I think this is starting to get all out of hand and when I suggested >this whole thing I didn't think it was going to be crazy likethis. >Perhaps the attribute thing is best left to doing it thenormal Wicket >way. I think the only thing I really need for i18nin terms of changing >attributes is for a button or submit form elementand those are easy >enough to add in each page. > >I think we need a simple solution which gets the job done for other >cases where, for example, you do: > >First Name: <input type="text"/> >Last name: <....> >etc. > >Currently, I have to add a label in the page/form for every single >label I want for a form field, which honestly is kind of a pain. So, >I suggest we add the <wicket:message> tag which has this: > ><wicket:message key="myKey">Default Message</wicket:message> > >Nice and simple. I think this will cover most cases where peopleuse >i18n and if attribute support is needed people will just have toadd >it to a component manually in the page code. > >Thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
