anctually helpers already automatically cgi.escape all tag attributes.
Massimo
On Nov 29, 5:15 pm, achipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Inspired by the URL talk in the other thread, I'm wordering if would
> make sense to make helpers a bit smarter to make conversions and some
> defaults easier (not to mention standards compliance enforcing !). The
> URL() helper is actually already moving in this direction as it
> transparently urlencodes the parameters. So, I was thinking we could
> do the same for helpers which deal with URL-s, f.e. A(), IMG(), etc.
> For the A() tag, the 'smartness' is required for example to have the
> HREF field automatically urlescaped, or definining an empy "#" HREF if
> it's not specified to pass validation. An image element without an ALT
> and SRC tag will also not pass validation, thus, if these are not
> provided, the helper should generate them on a best effort basis. I
> would more likely expect from an IMG('something.jpg') to use the
> string for src or alt and not throw an error. There are probably more
> helpers that could do some more interpretation/validation according to
> HTML specs. Thoughts ?
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