You probably know this but I want to further the discussion for hysterical historical consideration. FWIW, I don’t find this weird or crufty; it’s perfectly logical and consistent with HTML. checked is either there or not in an input[type=checkbox]. It’s not a key with a value, it’s just there. Giving it a value of undef or 0 is meaningless because it takes no value and you’re still giving it the “key” attribute. CGI being removed has more to do with there being better, c.f. more maintainable alternatives and not wanting to be seen as encouraging 1990s’ web dev practices out of the box. There is no package in any language that does what it does better or with more DWIWness. It’s just not a good way to do big code projects. If you know it well though it’s still an excellent, rapid choice for one-offs or tests. Wrapping in PSGI is easy now too.

(To pedantic anonymonks itching to shoot: I know checked="checked".)

In reply to Re^2: What's the REAL DEAL with Perl $cgi->checkbox() by Your Mother
in thread What's the REAL DEAL with Perl $cgi->checkbox() by misterperl

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