Just dealing with IE8 whitespace for now: Is there extras white space between all divs? That is, in a log of several inputs/outputs is there whitespace throughout?
Or is the extra space only when with ctrl+shift+uparrow recall? On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Sherlock, Ric <[email protected]>wrote: > > From: Eric Iverson > > Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 11:10 > > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > ... > > > > > > From some initial experimentation with the local jhs using both > > Firefox > > > 3.6.8 and IE8 on 32-bit Win7, here are some comments: > > > > > > * In Firefox the log div has a dashed border when it has focus. That > > is not > > > the case in IE. I think no border is cleaner & less distracting. > > > > > > > > I'm quite sure it will be easy to turn off the focus border for > > FF/Safari/Chrome. Probably just need to set a style properly but just > > haven't had a look yet. I agree it would be better without the border. > > Setting the CSS outline property of log div to transparent seems to solve > it for Firefox. Haven't tested in other browsers though. > > > > * Ctrl+Shift+UpArrow/DownArrow seems to work as intended in Firefox, > > but in > > > IE8 although the previous lines are recalled successfully, additional > > > whitespace (empty divs?) are added above the recalled line on each > > > key press. > > > I like that these keyboard shortcuts are now consistent with the J7 > > > Gtk and J602 wd IDEs. > > > > > Ugh. Don't have that problem in IE7. One of the nastiest rough cross > > browser issues are extra and missing bits of white space. I'll probably > > need some help on sorting that one out as I'd rather not install IE8 > > on any of my machines just yet. I assume that a normal sequence of > > entries looks OK. > > In general looks OK, but there appears to be an extra line of whitespace > between divs. So between a div of class "log" and one of class "file" or > "fm" there is a blank line. > > > * From experience it takes quite a while to get used to the difference > > > between pressing Enter on an old line sentence running it or copying > > > it down to the bottom of the session log. Both have their merits, > > > but whichever one is chosen, I think it would be sensible to have > > > the behaviour common between the J7 jhs & gtk IDEs. > > > > > > > An enter runs the line because at first that was easier as I hadn't > > figured > > out how to replace the line at the bottom. It would now be quite easy > > to do it either way. I have come to like the immediate run of the > > line. I agree it would be nice if it were the same for JHS and GTK. > > I am shy of more options. > > I agree about not making it an option. I my preference would be to stick > with the J602 behaviour for now, however if the decision is to go for the > immediate run, then IMO after Enter is pressed: > * The (edited) old line should be copied to the bottom > * Any edits made to the original old line should be reversed to keep the > session log as a semi-faithful representation of what has happened. > * The (edited) copy of the old line should be run > > > > * Still got issues using Firefox with: > > > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > > > appearing in ijx window log. > > > > > > Meant to get back to you on this before. This is just an smoutput > > from jfilesrc.ijs when the browser asks for the facicon file. Most > browser > > ask for this file the first time they see a new site or are asked to > > bookmark. > > It is the J (your J actually) that the browser will use. Normally you > > would see this rarely and only when starting things somewhat fresh. The > > smoutput will be removed. Are you seeing this all the time? > > Yes this is happening all the time. Here is a transcript of a session, > where (clicking on the menu-bar links using the mouse) I've switched from > the ijx window to the open window, then back to the ijx window. Then > switched to the package manager window and back again to the ijx window: > > jlog 0 > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > getsrcfile: favicon.ico > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
