On 12/15/09 9:18 AM, Ed Burns wrote:

Though I'm delighted to see all the traffic on this topic, I have to
weigh in and oppose adding many more tags.  The design focus of JSF
views has always been to mix template text and components.  In my
opinion, this is widely seen as a strength for server-side UI
technologies such as JSF.
  

I think I agree with Ed here.  At first, I thought adding a plethora of new tags might be a good idea for those case where you might want to interact with that particular DOM element on the client using various JSF facilities.  I think, though, the concern of an avalanche of tags might be off-putting, actually feeding into the complaints from some camps (I'm looking at you, Wicket people :) of tag soup.  For those cases where you do need access to a DOM element, "wrapper" components (such as the now-and-sadly-defunct Woodstock's webuijsf:markup: <webuijsf:markup tag="div" style="color:blue" /) would probably suffice.  Granted, it doesn't look as intuitive on the page, but in... I forget how many years of doing JSF, I've rarely needed such a component.

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