Re: Functions

On Sun, August 13, 2006 8:45 pm, Gerry D wrote: > On 6/30/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: > >> #2. Don't alter the case of the input data, if at all possible. >> Accept what the user has given, and take it as it is. You can make >> your application not care about case, and you can format the case on >> ouput (maybe even with fancy CSS stuff) but don't mess with their >> input. > > Why not clean up crappy input right at the source, Richard? Clean up crappy input, of course. Convert perfectly-valid NEWLINE into a tag <BR> for browser output, no. The conversion of the data for OUTPUT to a specific medium (browser, RSS, XML, WAP, FUTURE TECH #1*) should be done on OUTPUT, not INPUT. Othewise, to convert your input plain -> HTML data to WAP, you first have to UNDO the plain -> HTML conversion, then do a plain -> WAP conversion. That's just daft. * You should get a warm fuzzy for recognizing this phrase. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm