Re: [Phphtmllib-devel] more changes

[Walter A. B. I. <wab...@bu...>]

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 13:56, Tim Moloney wrote:
> Walter A. Boring IV wrote:
> 
> > Howdy,
> >   I'm working on adding lots more html_* helper functions with various
> > "standard" params for each specific tag to be built.  One of the changes
> > I am making to html_td() is to add specific commonly used params.
> > Currently html_td() only accepts content.  This kinda sux.
> > So I have come up with 
> > html_td($class, $align, $width),
> > params 4 through n are content.
> > 
> >   I thought about adding colspan as the 4th param, but in my experience,
> > its not used as often as the other 3.
> 
> I would like to see the colspan parameter, personally.
---ok I dropped the width parameter.  I think folks should use the
 style attribute of the tag, since the W3C says the width attribute
 for a TDtag is depricated.  This doesn't mean u can't do it, its just
 not a default param for the wrapper function html_td().  If you have to
do width="50", then u still can after you have created the object.
How often do folks really use colspan on a td?  what % of all TDtags
that you create need colspan attribute?  In my case its less then 10% of
all the TDtags I create manually.



> As I said before, if your going to change the API, now's the time.
> Just make sure that any API changes are well documented in the
> Changlog/Readme file.
-- I have updated the Changelog to reflect the major/minor changes 
that have happened since 1.1.0.
With any luck I'll have cvs access to the libs this comming week via
sourceforge.  


I am pretty sure that I have all the missing html_* helper functions
added.  Some of them have special attributes for the most commonly used
features of the tags.  Take html_fieldset() for example.
the first param of that function accepts, text, or a LEGENDtag object.
Since the first tag of a <fieldset> tag can be a <legend> tag.
If you guys haven't used <fieldset><legend>foo</legend></fieldset>
before, its really kewl.  Give it a try.  Unfortunatly IE 5.5 doesn't
render a background color on the legend properly, but it does look
killer in Moz.

Walt