Re: Am I the only one who questions JSTL, Struts Tags, XSL Tags?

From: Will Hartung (willh_at_msoft.com)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:01:48 -0700

"John Harlow" <sirsausage@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:D92dneMNL65sO_PcRVn-jQ@comcast.com...
> I would like to shoot the person who suggested the <input> tag should have
> eve been added to HTML. HTML is a great BROWSING format for BROWSERS
which
> were not designed for INTERACTIVE DATA ENTRY applications.
>
> So now we have silly "rigs" to deal with like tags, cookies and client
side
> javascript, and ridiculous hoops to jump through because the
connectionless
> server can't push stuff to the client and caches stuff when we don't want
it
> to and multiple flavors of browsers etc.
> </rant>
>
> For now we're stuck with taglibs or some other directives to have the
server
> build the HTML. I have devised a MUCH more efficient way of doing things
in
> my server design, but it still requires some "hints" in the HTML for the
> server to dynamically build the HTML.

The problem isn't the markup language, it's simply the whole paradigm of
stateless, page oriented design. If Swing worked the same way, you'd hate it
just as much, only there the markup language is Java instead of
HTML/Javascript.

Regards,

Will Hartung
(willh@msoft.com)

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