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Kind regards, Kevin On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Kevin Connor Arpe <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first post to this mailing list. > > I was playing around with HTML + text labels on Swing widgets today. I > noticed that the sniff test for HTML is defined by this static method: > javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicHTML.isHTMLString(String) > > The test is quite strict. Basically, the string must start with "<html>" > -- no whitespace allowed, but it is case insensitive. > > If there is a good reason for this strictness, please let me know. > Otherwise, I would like to submit a small patch (+ test) to improve this > static method to be more forgiving. If OK, please also advise about JDK7u > vs JDK8. (I don't know if a [simple] patch can be applied to both releases > easily.) > > In Perl regex parlance, something like: m/\s*<html\s*>/i > Of course, my solution probably wouldn't use a regex, nor Perl. =) > > Please share you thoughts. > > Thanks, > Kevin Connor ARPE > Hongkong >
