I know I will get ignored or flamed on this, but here I go. My apologies in advance if I offend anyone.
Before I start, I have made more than a couple of attempts at contributing code, all of which have been ignored or pushed off to irrelevant projects. I do wish this philosophy would get rethought. I do agree we don't need more code than necessary, however. 1) Tag libs are equal in importance to the controller. Clean tag libs give clean an maintainable view code and limit view re-factoring. 2) JSTL is a waste of time. The reason I say this, not counting the non-java people, is if you can write x number of lines of useful code per hour, with jstl that is reduced by a factor greater than 1 due to type checking, refactoring support, testing difficulties, etc. 3) While javascript may be inconsistent between browsers, it is certainly possible to write cross browser javascript w/o a huge amount of effort. I understand that in the original ideas of struts, javascript was 'optional', in real web sites that is just not the case. Try turning off javascript and ordering on-line, it will be the rare site which functions cleanly with many MAJOR sites becoming non-functional. 4) I am still wondering why struts became the standardized html nazis. This makes absolutely NO sense. A replacement philosophy for the tags might be: Any tag that has a clean interaction with a struts object or bean should be considered for tag libs assuming either very general usage or real benefit in specialized situations. Edgar > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Breese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:24 AM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: PATCH: html:cancel tag. Made a javascript version for > submitting > > > I actually agree with everything that you've said. I just have one > issue. The struts tag libs are still heavily used, and haven't been > deprecated. If they aren't part of the core struts package, then they > should be deprecated and moved to a different project. > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:21:25 -0700 (PDT), David Graham > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well said Niall. IMO, tags with any of the following > properties don't > > belong in Struts: > > 1. They don't interact with core Struts resources/framework. > > 2. They use javascript that may not work in all browsers. > > 3. They generate non-standard HTML. > > 4. They duplicate functionality already available in the JSTL. > > > > Many times Jakarta Taglibs is a more suitable home for these tags. > > > > David > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.707 / Virus Database: 463 - Release Date: 6/15/2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
