Hi, On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> wrote: > Can we be a little careful with that response? The behaviour you think > people are relying on is undocumented and confusing. Are people truly > relying on the "HTML encoding" behaviour of user input? > I think that something so unintuitive is better fixed rather than live with > it forever! > Simple user input such as "user<email>" is not being returned as expected > and I really don't want to be the kind of framework that instructs > developers to use workarounds especially as we roll out a shiny new API.
I do agree with both of you, Kai and Andrew. My proposal to fix this problem is to fix it in the new API, eo based, and make sure that we don't repeat this problem. What do you think Daniel ? Best, Cedric > On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 at 22:39, Kai Huuhko <kai.huu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2017-06-19 0:11 GMT+03:00 Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me>: >> > Marking up an input field is not the most common use-case - and is surely >> > inputted by the app rather than the user normally? >> > >> > I propose that ...text_get should return stripped markup and a new method >> > markup_text_get returns the current stuff. That would cater for both use >> > cases... >> >> This would break existing applications relying on the old behavior. I >> think we should not to break things more; if anything a method could >> be added for returning utf8 text directly. But I believe the helper >> functions do their job just as well. >> >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Andrew >> > On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 at 22:00, Daniel Hirt <hirt.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi Andrew, >> >> >> >> Markup uses tags like "<color=#fff> hello </color>". >> >> It is clear why it's essential to do "character escaping" like ">" >> >> instead >> >> of "<". Otherwise, if you feed "<" back to the entry widget, it will be >> >> misinterpreted as a tag element. >> >> As a side note, you can use "elm_entry_markup_to_utf8" helper to >> >> strip-down the formatting and "un-escape" the characters so all becomes >> >> a valid utf8 text. >> >> >> >> Hope that clears things up a bit. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Danny (herdsman) Hirt >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me >> > >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hi team, >> >> > >> >> > Netstar pointed out something to me today that I had completely missed >> >> for >> >> > ages - elm_entry assumes you are typing markup. Type "a>b" and >> text_get >> >> > will return "a>b" - what is the reason for this? It seems >> completely >> >> > crazy default behaviour. >> >> > Is there any reason we can't turn this off by default but provide the >> >> > markup filter in a way where it can be switched on as needed? >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > Andy >> >> > -- >> >> > http://andywilliams.me >> >> > http://ajwillia.ms >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> > ------------------ >> >> > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> >> > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > enlightenment-devel mailing list >> >> > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> enlightenment-devel mailing list >> >> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> >> >> > -- >> > http://andywilliams.me >> > http://ajwillia.ms >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> > _______________________________________________ >> > enlightenment-devel mailing list >> > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> enlightenment-devel mailing list >> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> > -- > http://andywilliams.me > http://ajwillia.ms > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- Cedric BAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
