[Catalyst] question from tutorial - does creating HTML in a controller using HTML::Widget violate MVC?

[Sebastian Riedel]

Hermida, Leandro wrote:  
> I thought the tutorial was absolutely great - things that I had in the 
> past spent hours developing myself are practically plug and play and 
> it gives you a nice taste of how powerful Catalyst is!
>  
> One question about the tutorial though, doesn't building 
> "presentation" material inside the controller using HTML::Widget so of 
> break the MVC concept?  After reading the Catalyst intro and about MVC 
> I thought I wouldn't be writing anything HTML or presentation specific 
> in the M or the C parts, only in the V which are the TT files.  Do I 
> have something wrong in my thinking?
Nope, you're right, the form declarations belong to the view, 
HTML::Widget was an experiment and i wouldn't suggest using it anymore.
There should be a TT plugin imo similar to the CGI.pm one, just sane. :)


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sebastian