[htmltmpl] Re: HTML::Pager and <SCRIPT> tag

[Mark S. <ma...@su...>]

On 2004-03-18, Martijn van den Burg <Mar...@as...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since there's no list for HTML::Pager I thought I could get away with an 
> OT post in its companion module, H::T.
>
> H::P inserts the tag <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript"> at the position 
> where the template variable PAGER_JAVASCRIPT is inserted. My problem is 
> that this tag is not valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML, and hence my pages that 
> use H::P aren't, either.
>
> Proposed solution: change this tag into <script type="text/javascript"> 
> (lowercase chars).

I looked at HTML::Pager and ran into the same standards compliance
issues (months ago). Eventually, I found it was much simpler and more
intuitive to use "Data::Page" and "Data::PageSet" to handle the paging.

Because they don't generate /any/ HTML, you won't have these problems.
You can also easily build your navigation using the HTML::Template
API you are already used to.

After rolling my own, and trying HTML::Pager, I've been quite happy with
Data::Page and related modules for several projects. 

There is a bug report about the standards compliance issue here:
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2471

The bug report has been open for 11 months, and HTML::Pager appears that
it hasn't been updated for nearly 4 years.  

	Mark

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