[cells-devel] html attributes

[Andy Chambers]

Hi Kenny,

As you may have noticed in the examples I put up earlier, each html
has a number of allowed attributes.

This mirrors quite closely the options you can set in tk.  The macros
I've defined so far actually provide
a nice benefit (that doesn't seem to exist in any of the other html
generation libraries) of validating your
html.  For example, if you tried to put a "fizzle" attribute on some
element, you'd get an error whereas
this would be perfectly acceptable in many other html generation
libraries.  I think that some of the
Haskell ones do clever things with typing to achieve the same effect.

The drawback, as far as I can see is that this pollutes the namespace
by adding a whole bunch of
methods that do essentially the same thing.  If someone wanted to use
this library, many useful names
like "onclick", and "href" would be snapped up already.

Is the solution just to make a short nickname, then people can just
use the package qualified names
for all the functions we export.

Cheers,
Andy