On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Foong Tzer wrote:
> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 05:31:26 -0800 > From: Foong Tzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Struts: a Graphic Artist blessing or curse? > > Dear Struts supporter, > > There seems to be a real world problem with using Struts (well, not > really Struts, but JSP Tag Libraries). It seems despite zero java coding > on the JSP pages, those 'funny' tags are still not digest-able by average > graphic designers. I mean, if they were to use Macromedia DreamWeaver, it > would not've rendered the look and feel if the tags were something like > this: - > > <html:img page="/nice.gif" altKey="Nice"/> > > <html:html locale="true"> </html:html> > > <html:link page="/another.jsp"><bean:message > key="another.title"/></html:link> > > > As opposed to the native standard HTML tags? > > I'm really not sure whether Macromedia or any other popular graphic > artiste tool would render these Struts JSP pages properly. Anybody here > has any experience solving this real world problem? > > Thanks. Any help would be much appreciated. One feature of Ultradev that is very valuable here is called "live data mode". In the case of JSP pages, it uses Tomcat behind the scenes to actually run the page, and the user is editing the GUI version of the page without necessarily understanding that this is happening. There's an Ultradev plugin available at Apache that enables GUI-based editing of any JSP custom tag library (not just Struts tags) at the Jakarta Taglibs project: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/ultradev4-doc/intro.html That is worth checking out. > Regards, > > Tzer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
