Short version: Copy and paste adds spaces at start of line.
The changes I reported in my previous post mean that I now have a
Mozilla which does not wrap HTML source (unless each paragraph has more
than 55555 characters!) and in which the View HTML Source does not wrap
the lines either. But I think this will help little, since whitespace
trouble arises from many sources, not just wrapping of HTML lines when
saving to a file.
In my addition to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61228 , I
show how copy and paste adds a space at the start of many lines of
text. This works with Win98 2000112908, but I think is almost certainly
a cross-platform problem:
Open new Composer page.
Type"0000" and then Enter.
Type"1111" and then Enter.
Type"2222" and then Enter, Enter and Enter.
Control A to select all.
Control C to copy to clipboard.
Down arrow to remove selection.
Contol V, Control V, Control V.
Now save the file. The results look good on screen and in a browser,
but the file contains unwanted spaces of the type which will later cause
whitespace trouble for Composer.
Copy and paste evidently does something to the data!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>!</title>
</head>
<body>
0000<br>
1111<br>
2222<br>
<br>
<br>
0000<br>
1111<br>
2222<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
0000<br>
1111<br>
2222<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
0000<br>
1111<br>
2222<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</body>
</html>
Every use of View HTML Source will add a space to all those body lines,
except those containing only a <br>.
I look forward to all these troubles being fixed!
- Robin
