Re: [OT] IE6 Funeral

2010-03-06 Thread Jim Ault
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I really wonder about these much vaunted standards and how valuable they really are. Surely the only standards that are needed are: The program works, It doesn't leak credit card numbers like a sieve. Actually, the deviation from

Re: RevMobile first impressions?

2010-03-06 Thread Marcio Alexandroni
Just to remember, RevMobile is in early PreAlpha, it's the first public release. I'm sure RunRev guys will work hard to support all the features in the next months. This is why I said it's definitely an amazing tool, I've never seen any PreAlpha that you can really build, deploy and run an

[ANN] revIgniter v1.2.1b

2010-03-06 Thread Ralf Bitter
revIgniter v1.2.1 Beta has been released ready for download. This version (1.2.1b) includes bug fixes and a new helper, which provides handlers that assist in working with Form-Mails. Info and download at: http://www.revigniter.com/ Ralf ___

reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Stuart
Hi all, I'm reading the HTML text of a web page and parsing it. Some of the text that I'm parsing contains (quot;) - braces not included. What runrev function do I use to convert that HTML text to the double quote () character? There will be other characters that I also need to convert, such as

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread François Chaplais
Le 6 mars 2010 à 23:01, Mark Stuart a écrit : Hi all, I'm reading the HTML text of a web page and parsing it. Some of the text that I'm parsing contains (quot;) - braces not included. What runrev function do I use to convert that HTML text to the double quote () character? There will be

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Stuart
Hi François, Thanx for your quick reply. I added Sarah's script into my application and ran it. The function halted with an error on (quot;), because it is not a number. I think Sarah's function is looking for a number after the ampersand, correct? So I'm handling the (quot;) as an exception

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.2.1b

2010-03-06 Thread stephen barncard
This is awesome work, Ralf, and the documentation is some of the best I've ever seen. This system is expandable and appears to be really well thought out. The concept of working almost 99% in RevTalk on a web page is remarkable. May your offering spawn some great sites...

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread Jim Ault
On Mar 6, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Mark Stuart wrote: Hi François, Thanx for your quick reply. I added Sarah's script into my application and ran it. The function halted with an error on (quot;), because it is not a number. I think Sarah's function is looking for a number after the ampersand,

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.2.1b

2010-03-06 Thread Ralf Bitter
Stephen, thanks for the kind words. Yes, revIgniter is expandable, it leaves plenty of room to be creative and to tailor the framework to your own needs. Cheers Ralf On 06.03.2010, at 23:38, stephen barncard wrote: This is awesome work, Ralf, and the documentation is some of the best I've

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Stuart
Hi all, Looking up runrev Dictionary for HTML, does result in a find (HTMLtext), which mentions the following near the very end. Special characters (whose ASCII value is greater than 127) are encoded as HTML entities. Revolution recognizes the following named entities: and then it lists all the

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Stuart wrote: Hi all, Looking up runrev Dictionary for HTML, does result in a find (HTMLtext), which mentions the following near the very end. Special characters (whose ASCII value is greater than 127) are encoded as HTML entities. Revolution recognizes the following named entities: and

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Stuart wrote: Looking up runrev Dictionary for HTML, does result in a find (HTMLtext), which mentions the following near the very end. Special characters (whose ASCII value is greater than 127) are encoded as HTML entities. Revolution recognizes the following named entities: and then it

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread Jim Ault
On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Stuart wrote: Hi all, Looking up runrev Dictionary for HTML, does result in a find (HTMLtext), which mentions the following near the very end. Special characters (whose ASCII value is greater than 127) are encoded as HTML entities.

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Stuart
Hi all, Richard - the html entity that didn't convert was the quot, starting with and ending with semi-colon ; (if I typed that into the email, you would only see , as you may see in the following). Jim - so you are suggesting a function to convert all possible entities for a text chunk:

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Stuart wrote: Richard - the html entity that didn't convert was the quot, starting with and ending with semi-colon ; (if I typed that into the email, you would only see , as you may see in the following). Jim - so you are suggesting a function to convert all possible entities for a text

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Stuart wrote: Hi all, Richard - the html entity that didn't convert was the quot, starting with and ending with semi-colon ; The htmltext can only be applied to fields; it won't work in variables. So you need to do what Richard suggested -- he's using the templateField (which is a