Thats true, HTML tags should be actually ignored and not used in the calculation then.
Sebastian 2012/12/9 Artyom Horuzhenko <[email protected]> > I found a bug when emoticon position is calculated incorrectly. For > example, you can write these messages to the chat: > "a normal :) text" - the emoticon is displayed normal > "<b>a text :) with html tags</b>" - the emoticon is moved to the right > > 2012/12/7 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > > the second option might be more user friendly. > > However you have to be aware that you might need to re-calc the chat > icon / > > emoticons in the text. > > Also the question is: Currently there is a gap of 2 spaces (or 4 spaces) > > for each emoticons. You can configure that for each emoticon in the > > emotes.xml file. > > 1 space roughly is 8 pixels. So 2 spaces are 16 pixels. Most of the > > emoticons are 16 pixels in width/height. > > If you change the font now to a way smaller or larger, this calculation > > will no more work. You will either have to insert 3,4,5 spaces if the > font > > gets very small or only 1 space if the font gets very big. > > Another possibility (actually the better one) would be if you would scale > > the emoticon according to the font-size. This would look much better the > > number of spaces would fit. Also this will be much better as with smaller > > and larger font-sizes the space between the lines (the line height) will > > change. If the emoticons do not scale with the fontsize this will look > very > > ugly. > > However you will need to build this emoticons scaling mechanism into the > > chat emoticon calculation. > > > > This is basically the main reason why there is no configurable font size > => > > emoticons need to be re-calculated. And this can a bit time consuming to > > test it out with each and every emoticons and test in different sizes. > > > > Sebastian > > > > > > 2012/12/7 Артём Хоруженко <[email protected]> > > > >> Hello everybody! > >> > >> I'm interested with this issue: > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENMEETINGS-228 > >> > >> I see two ways of implementation: > >> 1. The font set in room preferences for all chat messages by the > >> administrator. Users couldn't change the font style (changing font > >> style is already possible by adding html tags to message). > >> 2. Add a panel with the font style near the smile button. Users could > >> change the style of their message parts if the administrator allow to > >> do it in the room preferences. > >> > >> What do you think about it? > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Sebastian Wagner > > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > > http://www.webbase-design.de > > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > > [email protected] > -- Sebastian Wagner https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock http://www.webbase-design.de http://www.wagner-sebastian.com [email protected]
