On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 16:20:59 -0700 Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> said:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 15:22:04 -0700 Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> said: > >> 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 ? > > > > i disagree. we should do markup by default in most places where text is to > > be displayed. not only do the back-ends already do it (textblock) it's > > convenient for just adding some bold or underlined text but also allows us > > to trivially extend. add another method to get/set plain utf8. markup in > > general is more useful. > > It is obviously confusing to people and has created bugs in the past. > People do expect they get text when they ask for text, not markup. If > you call .text() in JS, you don't get markup, you get text. I really > believe this is making our API harder to use without mistake. > .text.get() and .markup.get() should be 2 differents exposed API. Them > being available on every object is fine, but text should not return > markup. yet in js's home turf (web) all text i/o for a document (the tree of widgets so to speak) is markup. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
