Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-taglibs-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 89606 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2002 13:39:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 5 Apr 2002 13:39:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 15300 invoked by uid 97); 5 Apr 2002 13:39:17 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-taglibs-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 15270 invoked by uid 97); 5 Apr 2002 13:39:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact taglibs-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Tag Libraries Developers List" Reply-To: "Tag Libraries Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list taglibs-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 15234 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2002 13:39:15 -0000 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:39:05 -0500 (EST) From: Henri Yandell X-X-Sender: To: Tag Libraries Developers List Subject: Re: use of JSPTags In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N I think there are two distinct types of custom tag. UI tags and tags that hide server-side work. Most of the Jakarta ones hide server-side work, in fact you'll notice that the taglibs which tend to get in are the server-side ones, while gui ones tend to falter and not get in. For example I believe that a Calendar taglib has now been submitted 6 times. Is this a good thing? I don't know. A UI taglib generally involves outputting html and snippets of javascript. In this wonderful world of ours this is usually a bitch to try and get to be cross-browser. If a UI tag works well across browser, either because it's simple or well tested, then I don't think it's a bad thing, but it goes outside the scope of what Jakarta Taglibs as a project seems to focus on traditionally. I'm all in favour of Widget/UI tags. Struts uses them to good effect. I think there could be more use of them, maybe another project is needed to deal with those. Hen On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 Marco.Mistroni@nokia.com wrote: > hi all, > > without putting any doubts on the advantages of > using JSP tags, i would like to know one thing: is it > a correct way of acting if in the code off the JSPTag class > i write straight html code, such as (don't care about correctness) > > out.write("