Re: [htmltmpl] extra whitespace

[Chris B. <htm...@pa...>]

Rumour has it Mark A. Fuller, on or about 08.Feb.2006 17:46, whispered:
> But, as someone said back then: white space in HTML is not "display".
> Viewing HTML is not "presentation." I ended up agreeing with that.

Ah, I am not so sure.  It so happens that the HTML spec allows you to ignore
whitespace in many places, but that is just HTML.  And yeah, I know the product
is HTML::Template not Text::Template.  In MVC terms HTML::Template produces a
view that is reinterpreted as a model by the browser.

> Adding a filter option will be a lot easier than trying to get H:T
> to remove linefeeds *that you inserted*.

I'm not so sure of that.  In my view and I believe Alex as well, the end goal of
H:T is to have a framework that takes an easy to read and maintain template and
produces an easy to read and debug html page.  I personally try to avoid tmpl_if
statements for exactly this issue, but there are other devs on our team who have
no real choice.

Look, I don't want to spam people here, but you will have a hard time persuading
me that behaviour that seems intuitive is actually wrong.

In the meantime, I will keep using H:T because, as the kids say these days, it
teh r0xors.  Or something like that.

Cheers,
Chris
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