So are we going to change the default behavior of text fields to be that
whitespace is
normalized out?



On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:55 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]>wrote:

> We can just add a kludge to swf8 to collapse whitespace (using a regex).
>  (I don't think we want to emulate the swf8 lossage.)
>
> On 2010-01-27, at 12:56, Henry Minsky wrote:
>
> > Note, in AS3, there's a flag they added to TextField, 'condenseWhite', so
> we
> > can at least be compatible with
> > DHTML there, but we'd have to do something icky to make swf8 handle it.
> >
> >
> > 2010/1/27 hminsky <[email protected]>
> >
> >> Yeah all the grief is because Flash's TextField's implementation of
> >> rendering HTML text preserves whitespace.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think what we want:
> >>>
> >>> An attribute of text (I would name it simply "html"), which if true
> makes
> >>> the content be interpreted as HTML (which means that whitespace will be
> >>> collapsed unless you insert the appropriate markup to preserve it), and
> if
> >>> false the content will be displayed verbatim (i.e., <>& will be escaped
> and
> >>> whitespace will be preserved).
> >>>
> >>> The devil is in how you achieve this cross-runtime.
> >>>
> >>> On 2010-01-27, at 12:20, Max Carlson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Wait, this isn't quite right.  It seems the issue is how the browser
> >>>> renders spaces - not whether we're rendering HTML or not...
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Max Carlson
> >>>> OpenLaszlo.org
> >>>>
> >>>> On 1/26/10 4:52 PM, Max Carlson wrote:
> >>>>> Change 20100126-maxcarlson-j by maxcarl...@bank on 2010-01-26
> 16:45:13
> >>> PST
> >>>>>    in /Users/maxcarlson/openlaszlo/trunk-clean
> >>>>>    for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Summary: Add support for HTML display to lztext
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bugs Fixed: LPP-7558 - DHTML<text>  does not preserve whitespace,
> >>> LPP-6617 - Text should be able to be plain or html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Technical Reviewer: ptw
> >>>>> QA Reviewer: hminsky
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Details: LzSprite - Add htmltext capability, set to true
> >>>>>
> >>>>> LzTextSprite - Implement setHTML(), handle changes to overflow and
> >>> whitespace CSS properties.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> LzInputText - Deprecate setHTML() in favor of displayhtml attribute.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> LzTextSprite - Add setHTML(), deprecate in favor of displayhtml
> >>> attribute.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tests: This test shows whitespace in DHTML:
> >>>>> <canvas>
> >>>>>    <text id="txt" bgcolor="#ffaaaa" text=" Hello    Laszlo! "
> >>> displayhtml="true"/>
> >>>>> </canvas>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Files:
> >>>>> M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/dhtml/LzSprite.js
> >>>>> M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/dhtml/LzTextSprite.js
> >>>>> M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/views/LzInputText.lzs
> >>>>> M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/views/LzText.lzs
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Changeset:
> >>> http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20100126-maxcarlson-j.tar
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Henry Minsky
> >> Software Architect
> >> [email protected]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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> > [email protected]
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