[Seaside] idea: allow canvas tag attributes to be specified beforetag

[Boris Popov]

I'm not convinced sacrificing readability in favor of saving a handful of
characters from being typed pushed the cause any further. As far as my
thinking model is concerned is certainly easier to comprehend a sequence of
events where something gets created and then configured as opposed to
configuration of a non-existing component-from-the-future.

That, plus the brushes would no longer define the 'available' attributes in
the first place, so you could easily end up with semantically incorrect HTML
like,

html
 url: 'http://www.yahoo.ca';
 div: [html text: 'Hello']

whereas trying to do the same in the current system will properly notify you
(DNU) about the issue,

html div
 url: 'http://www.yahoo.ca';
 with: [html text: 'Hello']

Just my $0.10 for the 5 characters that we saved ;)

Cheers!

-Boris

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-----Original Message-----
From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Keith
Hodges
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:40 AM
To: The Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server - general discussion.
Subject: [Seaside] idea: allow canvas tag attributes to be specified
beforetag

Thinking out loud:

starting with
the nice a concise form
html div: [  html with: 'hello world' ]

if I want to add a class or id this becomes

html div class: 'label'; with: [  html with: 'hello world' ]

I know it is only one less with, but might it be useful to allow some 
attributes to be set in anticipation of using a tag.

html class: 'label'; div: [ html with: 'hello world' ].

?

Keith

	
	
		
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