Can we let it ride for a week, to see what else comes up? I appreciate input from the developers, but we might want to also see what the other committers have to say.
I also just thought of another one: "output" - since that is what we are really doing, outputting something into the body of tag. I do agree with Craig, that compliance has to be the "Prime Directive". If that sometimes means making things more difficult for people who choose to use Struts, because other products choose to be non-compliant, then so be it. I also agree that the framework should encourage proper use, and I do support a number of other design choices we've made in the place, which are not always popular with developers. Like Craig (I imagine), I would instantly veto something like a wrap tag for textarea being part of a tag, since that is a vendor-supplied extension, and not part of the W3C specification. This has always seemed like a likely compromise to me, and I've mentioned doing it several times myself. Though, the argument that there should be no non-standard attributes, carries some weight with me, since that is why we have this problem in the first place. People ran around doing whatever they pleased, standards be dammed. The other question I would ask, is how does this fit in with JSPTL? I don't think any of want to continue supporting tags that overlap with those. If we allow a literal attribute in all of our tags now, is that going trip people up later when we migrate. Might the Jakarta Input taglib's people have any thoughts on this? Eventually, we might want to hook up, and fill in the JSPTL gaps with a single set of Jakarta extensions. But now that we've let the genie out of the bottle, lets hang back and see what other people have to say. -Ted. Oleg V Alexeev wrote: > > Hello Ted, > > So, votes for naming of free style attribute for html tags - > > literal - 2 > freetext - 1.5 (already extst) > custom - 1 > > Any other votes or variants? If nothing then it will became 'literal'. > > Monday, December 10, 2001, 2:02:01 PM, you wrote: > > TH> Is freetext all right with everyone, or should we use something like > > TH> literal > > TH> custom > > TH> or > > TH> verbatim > > TH> It's just that I feel we have not paid close enough attention to the > TH> naming of things in the past, and we might want "measure twice" before > TH> we document this. > > TH> -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. > TH> -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services. > TH> -- Tel +1 716 737-3463 > TH> -- http://www.husted.com/struts/ > > TH> -- > TH> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > TH> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > Best regards, > Oleg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services. -- Tel +1 716 737-3463 -- http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
