It's OK to not like CGI, as long as you respect it. CGI.pm is one of the reasons for Perl's popularity on the web and allowed for building web pages without having to know HTML inside and out when you needed to collect data from the visitor. It was made for Perl programmers not web designers. It's hard to remember life without WYSIWYG HTML editors and an HTML specification that didn't support tables or images, but its all true. It is great to see it has been extended as far as it has, but for the most part the state of art is beyond it.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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