> > >1) Changing the behavior of the PropertyTag hurts our userbase. > > > > No examples given. Thus an unfounded opinion with no base in logic. > > I am a WebWork user. I use the PropertyTag. Changing the behaviour of > the PropertyTag hurts me.
...and he fell into the trap. We do NOT advocate changing property tag. I even advocated adding the new tags after 1.3 in the beginning, but I've since then been convinced by others that that would be a bit too late. > > >2) Adding addional tags makes the PropertyTag (and the taglibs as a > > >whole) more confusing, not less. > > > > Adding tags that are simple and straight forwards makes PropertyTag more > > confusing. You are totally correct on this. But why? Because it makes it > > abundantly clear how extremely confusing, complicated and bloated property > > tag is. Of course it looks confusing when it stands next to simple tags! > > Most of thr above is a matter of opinion, in this case yours. However, > the main problem is that if we have two radically different ways to do > the same thing, it WILL be confusing. This has nothing to do with the > specifics of these tags, really. You had an opinion and I countered by an opinion. Note that none of our arguments are anything but opinions. Not yours, not mine, no matter how much you try to make it sound otherwise. > I can kind of see the point of some > of the proposed tags, but definitely not all of them. Less is more, even > though having only PropertyTag may be a little too extreme. Well yea, push and pop I added just for orthogonality and I thought I heard someone saying they wanted it. I personally don't want them, becase focus does it better. // Anders Hovmöller ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
