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

Hermida, Leandro Leandro.Hermida at fmi.ch
Wed Dec 6 14:38:59 GMT 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt S Trout [mailto:dbix-class at trout.me.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 15:25
> To: The elegant MVC web framework
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] question from tutorial - does 
> creating HTML in acontroller using HTML::Widget violate MVC?
> 
> 
> On 6 Dec 2006, at 13:57, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Matt S Trout wrote:
> >
> >> I wouldn't use HTML::Widget at all. The people who took over maint 
> >> after sebastian gave up on it have struggled valiantly to make it 
> >> useful and production quality and so far as I'm concerned 
> failed. Not 
> >> one of his better experiments :)
> >
> > So what's considered best practice in this area, is it still 
> > Data::FormValidator or should we be looking at something else ?
> 
> I hate that, the ::Simple variety and CGI::FormBuilder least 
> out of the current CPAN-able options.
> 
> Personally, I'm using Reaction for this but our "newer, 
> shinier, rounder" variant on this oft-reinvented wheel is 
> still a bit documentation-shy so I'm not sure I'd recommend 
> it to anybody with a SAN score in the double digits just yet.

I just looked up Reaction on search.cpan.org and as you said there isn't
much info.  What is Reaction and where will it fit?
 



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