What are your goals? If you are writing stuff on your own, for your own use, that won't change very often, then sure... use CGI. If you want it to be more maintainable, to separate content from function, then you should really should move the content out of the cgi. That is move the html into separate files.

There are many ways to do this, but this allows you to modify the html without introducing errors into your cgi. Beyond this, imagine you hire somebody to do the graphic design for you, you can hand them ugly HTML, and they can make it look as pretty as you like.

To go a step further, you might consider a templating system that allows for overriding content. This would allow you to use your same cgi's in another language or would allow you to let users choose colors or format.

So, what would you like. In the long run, I think you would be happier with separate content files that can have their own revision history.

In reply to Re: CGI.pm HTML shortcuts by Rhandom
in thread CGI.pm HTML shortcuts by brpsss

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