in reply to Re^3: How to PRINT CGI html table to a PNG file
in thread How to PRINT CGI html table to a PNG file

I'm a 20-year CGI vet here to say you're right, CGI is not the badguy. You are. Your attitude is toxic and it makes your salient points indigestible. And using center() in HTML code? Why not add your myspace link to your sig so everyone knows when your skills ossified?

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Re^5: How to PRINT CGI html table to a PNG file
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 23, 2018 at 14:14 UTC
    > And using center() in HTML code?

    You are seriously off-topic my friend. The OP used a center tag which is valid HTML 4.01 supported by all major browsers. I would of course use the absurdly more verbose CSS style="text-align:center;"!

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      The topic is promoting old tech. This is valid Perl–

      print &CGI'header;

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      Suggesting you should use it will get you criticized. Defending the utility of older technology is one thing and it's fine and good in context and with caveats. Asserting, aggressively, asocially, it's as good as new technology, nay, better!, and should be chosen over it "because it still works" and ships on boxes that don't ship with npm, for a single example, does a huge disservice to the seekers of wisdom.

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        > The topic is promoting old tech.

        What are you talking about? Criticizing functional software merely for its age is patently absurd commercial propaganda designed to keep people buying upgrades to intentionally broken programs. Everyone on this node who is not answering the OP's simple question about CGI and the other thing is off-topic trolling and should be downvoted. Seriously, what if the author of Template::Toolbox (or his goons) chimed into every node about Template::Toolkit to inform everyone how old TT is that it should not be recommended or used anymore, not even for your own private reasons whatsoever, without giving any convincing reasons, or any reasons at all. What the heck?

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