RE: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-20 Thread Kichline, Don \(EM, PTL\)
>Having said all that about the *bugs* though, the problem you'll face will >be getting anyone to implement your changes and you may go to the trouble of >developing patches that just get ignored. It was always was my intention to implement the changes myself. I wanted to gauge reaction to see

Re: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-19 Thread Craig McClanahan
own functionality on the controller tier. Craig > > > > -Original Message- > From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:25 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: non-standard attributes in taglib > > An orth

Re: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-19 Thread Niall Pemberton
Firstly on a general note, if its new development, then IMO it would be better to use the latest Struts 1.2.4 release. More specifically on adding additional attributes to Struts tags, I recently refactored some of the HTML tags (specifically all those that derive from BaseHandlerTag) and added th

RE: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-19 Thread Kichline, Don \(EM, PTL\)
iling List Subject: Re: non-standard attributes in taglib I can appreciate your feelings on this ... but IMHO the proposed cure is worse than the disease. Allowing an open-ended mechanism like this abandons any hope of using an IDE to catch typos in attribute names, and just encourages the use of no

Re: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-19 Thread Jason King
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:52 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: non-standard attributes in taglib Historically, the Struts developers have been very strict about accepting only W3C standard attributes, and I don't see this changing anytime soon -- it would be somewhat ironic f

RE: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-19 Thread Kichline, Don \(EM, PTL\)
Now this is something I had not realized. What is going to replace them? -Original Message- From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:25 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: non-standard attributes in taglib An orthogonal issue that is

Re: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-19 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:01:19 -0400, Kichline, Don (EM, PTL) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Searching on the new groups, that is what I have been hearing... Unfortunately that > is not going to fly in this case. What I am proposing is a generic work around for > this problem that will not tie stru

RE: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-19 Thread Kichline, Don \(EM, PTL\)
course we don't have enough of either. Thanks, Don Kichline -Original Message- From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:52 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: non-standard attributes in taglib Historically, the Struts developers

Re: non-standard attributes in taglib

2004-10-19 Thread Craig McClanahan
Historically, the Struts developers have been very strict about accepting only W3C standard attributes, and I don't see this changing anytime soon -- it would be somewhat ironic for an open source project to endorse a proprietary single-vendor lock-in by doing something like this :-). I suspect mo