RE: FW: using template directives with anchor tags

Excellent comments Diez...you've nailed the issues quite succintly. I concur
;-)

Christian
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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Diez B. Roggisch
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:56 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Barracuda] FW: using template directives with anchor tags
>
>
> Hi,
>
> > block-level element.  Hmmm.....   It would be hard to come up
> with general
> > rules that people wouldn't find annoying in one case or
> another.  probably
> > better to just use BLink components on tags that actually handle it (of
> > course, that requires some extra knowledge of the markup on the
> part of the
> > Java coder).
>
> The java-coder wanted to return a link here - the html-designer
> didn't give
> him one :)
>
> At least for the actual case I think barracuda behaves well -
> when designing
> templates, one should try to come up with a html-mockup that sort
> of fakes
> the desired behaviour (form-actions pointing to result-pages and
> the like).
> Now doing this here would mean to provide an actual <a>-tag when
> you want one
> to appear in your html at that place.
>
> Having too much intelligence in the rendering will increase the need for
> configuration on the java-side - which is something that happened
> to us using
> struts and taglibs. We could create whole parts of a site with
> only one tag -
> with half a dozen cryptic attributes. and taking the current moon
> phase into
> account...
>
> Diez
>
>
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