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  1. You can certainly get a lot of mileage out of using pass through HTML instead of Domino-generated form elements (tables, etc). I do this a lot myself. But there is, of course, a price to be paid: it can make code maintenance a real nightmare.

    We have a number of applications that have a lot of pass-through HTML instead of Domino generated elements, and we find that periodically we have to add new features or change existing ones. The problem - sometimes your new feature breaks something else in the application. Then you need to open the form up in Notes to figure out what's going on... and you find yourself looking at a page full of gibberish. Or, you have multiple lines of HTML on your form, only one of which is supposed to be rendered at any given time, but your hide-whens have gotten screwed up. Which one of these almost identical sets of tags is the problem?

    Sure, these problems can be worked around, but it's tiresome. We ended up converting some forms or parts of forms back to Domino-generated tables, etc, because the aggravation factor just got too high.

    Lesson learned: use pass-through HTML when you need to to achieve a desired effect. But if the Domino generated element is good enough, use it!

    Sean

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