[Catalyst] Re: HTML::FormFu and Rose::DB::Object?

Quinn Weaver quinn at fairpath.com
Wed Apr 4 07:12:15 GMT 2007


Bill Moseley wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:53:32PM -0700, Quinn Weaver wrote:
> 
> > In contrast to FormBuilder, RHTMLO wants you to write your HTML form
> > by calling Perl methods, somewhat in the spirit of CGI.pm.  This makes
> > it hard for design people to edit the form.
> 
> Maybe I'm not understanding that paragraph, but in RHTMLO (IIRC) you
> can do [% form.field('foo').xhtml %] in a template.  What are
> you thinking would be easier for the design people?

No, you're right.  I didn't catch that possibility, though it's
implicit in the documentation.  Partly because the docs tell you the
details of all the methods you can call, but not the big picture of
what they're good for--in other words, they're etic, not emic.

Thanks for holding up the big picture in front of me and
making me go "duh". :)

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