Re: [Springframework-developer] form based tags and macros (spring bind)

[Tom T. <tom...@pr...>]

Hello Darren,

> I'm doing some work on the Velocity/FreeMarker support to try and offer 
> standardised (as far as poss) macros and tags in the web ui for html
> forms.

That would be useful!

> 1. Some of the constructs are more powerful than others (ie FreeMarker
> and 
> JSP 2.0 can do more than Velocity, but thBinden the syntax is arguably
> more 
> complex).  This has implications for consistency in the framework.  My 
> opinion here is that consistency is better at the price of reduced
> standard 
> functionality in the more powerful languages.  Those features can go into
> a  
> cookbook section on the wiki for example rather than a standard framework 
> library.Bind

I'd prefer consistency, e.g. consistent as much as possible with the
existing spring jsp tags?

> 2. Should the standard macros and tags output any markup (HTML) or simply 
> make values available in simple variable names to be used in client code 
> markup.  The fBindormer is very convenient for userBinds but means they
> put 
> up with our HTML, the latter should be fine for everyone but means more 
> typing in your templates.  My opinion here again is that less is more.  
> HTML for me is VERY application specific and I would feel that Spring was 
> starting to cross the line from framework/library domain to application 
> domain.

No HTML output please! Again consistent with the existing spring jsp
tags?

Kind regards,
Tom.