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

[John Napiorkowski]

--- Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Totally off topic but I was curious about the SAN
score reference; can I take this to mean you have some
'Call of Cthulhu' RPG in your background or was this
choice of words more arbitrary? --john

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