RE: HTML tags - WHY?

[Robert Scaduto <rs...@douwantit.com>]

Internationalization is one of the main reasons I see in using the Struts
tags for non-form related tags.  Our site is implemented in several
languages and so all of the images and text come from ResourceBundles.
Struts is automatically aware of these bundles and will display the right
content for the specified locale. The <html:img> tag is a good example of
this.

Outside of this the <html:link> tag will automatically handle URL rewriting
of the jsessionid for users who do not support cookies.

I think if you took some time and examined the inner workings of all of the
html tags you would find that even though you may have no use for some of
the features they implement, each of them adds something that may be of
value for someone.  The nice part about it is you don't have to use them if
you don't want to.

-Robert Scaduto

-----Original Message-----
From: cody.burleson@studiointeractive.com
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Subject: Re: HTML tags - WHY?



Maybe I should rephrase the question.  I understand what the tags are for
when related to form items and even hyperlinks (allowing forwards), but
what is the point of duplicating the others?

- Cody





Jim Crossley <jc...@ifleet.com>@jimmy.ifleet.com on 02/07/2002 04:14:45
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That is certainly the biggie.  Coupla others:

- Transparently inserts context path prefix.
- Automatically encodes html-specific characters

"Krueger, Jeff" <jk...@silverstream.com> writes:

> One thing is it will populate the tag with the value from your formBean.
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> Jeff
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> Can someone help me understand why struts duplicates almost all standard
> HTML tags. In all of these cases, struts adds something special that is
not
> already inherent in the tag?
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> - Cody
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