Well said. In the context of an HTML template,
what the heck does this mean?:
<% } %>
...it is not really human-readable.
</LOOP>, on the other hand, at least
tells you "this is the end of a repeating
block of HTML."
You don't need too many tags to make
a good HTML template system. In fact
you only need two: loops and conditionals.
If you have to do something unusual like
iterate through an array backwords, the
reversal logic should be in a bean.
I'm only asking for two tags. As it is,
JSP is broken. It is a shame because
this is supposed to be the real, final
release. We shouldn't even be talking
about 1.1.
-Harris
--- "Mark A. Kolb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not to beat a dead horse, but... :)
>
> Actually, I can think of at least one major
> difference between JavaScript
> and JSP scriptlets that I think is significant to
> the current debate.
> Specifically, JavaScript scripts must be completely
> contained within the
> bounding <SCRIPT> tags. As examples such as the one
> on page 51 of the 1.0
> spec show, JSP scriptlets can be extended across <%
> ... %> boundaries, with
> opened Java delimiters in one scriptlet matching up
> with closing delimiters
> in a later scriptlet. IMHO, this introduces a
> significant maintenance
> problem, and is sufficiently different from the way
> JavaScript works that
> it could be quite confusing to an HTML UI person.
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