jeff, i think thats a very fair and balanced argument on the point.
On Feb 12, 6:24 pm, "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan, > > My point is that it IS the expected behavior for textarea, pre and > code tags. That's why newbies write to you saying "my whitespace > doesn't work". That's why newbies don't use the "~" in the first > place, because they think "=" should work. > > That being said, I'll agree that it is reasonable to demand that those > tags be treated as special cases. However "find_and_preserve" is not > very descriptive or elegant. And while "~" is not particularly > descriptive, it is IMHO elegant. > > If I understood your previous posts in this thread, there are valid > software engineering issues which make the deprecation a good idea. > But as a user, the arguments that "it's better for you" and "it > shouldn't matter to you" ring false. > > Regards, > Jeff > > On Feb 12, 3:17 am, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Huh, my mistake. But the point still remains that it's a special case, > > even if it /is/ used in every textarea ever created. It's certainly not > > used every time someone uses "=", and it's not the expected behavior. > > Yes, Haml mucking up the whitespace is a problem, but that's why there's > > a solution for when that problem comes up. > > > - Nathan > > > Jeff wrote: > > > I don't know about preloading whitespace, but typing newlines into a > > > textarea is terribly common. Every blog in the universe does it. > > > This message board does it. > > > > JR --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
