Re: [Phphtmllib-devel] Usability issues

[David M. <da...@re...>]

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 05:34, Walter A. Boring IV wrote:
> But one of the nice things about some of
> the html_* functions is the api of params for most common things.
> Such as the html_a() function which has the params of
> 
> function html_a($url, $content, $class=NULL, $target=NULL);

I didn't see any mention of the html_* functions in the doco.

RTFS time I guess :)

One of the best things about phpHtmlLib in general is that it eliminates
that annoying issue of having to 'close' tags. It's amazing how much
debugging time I've wasted looking at statements like
"echo '</table\n'" and asking 'which bloody nested table have I closed
here?!?'.

Anyway, I'll put my API design skills to the test and see if I can cook
up a wrapper that makes for ergonomic programming.

For example, if one wants TD cells to have a given font size, one has to
embed a FONT tag in each cell, which tends to mess up the code. (I
commented out the 'FONT is deprecated' warning in the lib, and I haven't
found anything in phpHtmlLib for CSS). I'll have a go at addressing
this.

Cheers
David