On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:19:24 -0700, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Scott Rossi wrote: >> ...IIRC this behavior is somewhat new for Rev -- used to be that >> "answer" displayed the raw (unformatted) text of whatever you fed >> it.
Well, sorry to break your bubble, but HTML formatting in the Answer Dialog goes way back to 2.1.2 (at least)**. >> Seems like there should be some kind of "show formatted" toggle >> or something built on the HTMLtext property. Agreed. > This may be a bug. IIRC, the flag is the presence of "<p>" at the > beginning and "</p>" at the end of the text. If either of those is > absent the text is rendered as plain text, otherwise it's assumed to > e htmlText. > > The MetaCard group looked into this in detail a couple years ago, and > have adopted that convention from Rev. Actually, IIRC, we looked at what Rev was doing** and realizing that was a bad idea, decided to check ONLY for text beginning with "<p>" to indicate a desire for HTML formatting. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ------------ ** Rev (since 2.6.1) looks for "<p>" *in* the text, or is looking to match anything in open/close/self-enclosing tags. Oddly enough, Rev 2.1.2 looks for text *beginning* with a "<p>" OR any text that is in open/close/self-enclosing tags. Both ways are problematic... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
