It has been agreed that there is one, and only one, issue which perfectly splits the Perl community down the middle 50-50: CGI.pm and the HTML methods. Half like 'em, half don't.

I find that I prefer letting CGI.pm handle frms, but at the same time, really don't like the HTML methods. And you really shouldn't mix th two, unless you want to blow a synapse (although letting CGI.pm produce the header and handling the rest your self is not so bad).

A good discussion of the routines came up while discussing CGI.pm's would be successor, on over at RFC CGI.pm refactoring. You might want to check it out.

Cheers,
Erik

In reply to Re: CGI.pm for HTML output? by erikharrison
in thread CGI.pm for HTML output? by jrsmith

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