This is necessarily going to be different.
The way to discuss this is to say that the <text> tag may use a
runtime-specific renderer (for example, *currently* in the Flash 7-8
runtime we use the Flash Text class, and *currently* in the DHTML
runtime we use the HTML renderer itself), so we cannot provide pixel-
identical output.
By the way, it would be useful to put a notation in to the discussion
of <text> to mention the (DHTML-specific) <html> tag -- the <text>
tag only supports a very limited subset of HTML, but I don't know
whether we filter out non-cross-platform markup on the DHTML runtime,
so folks working initially in DHTML may have the impression that
<text> can contain arbitrary HTML. We want to position <html> as an
embedding solution, and <text> as a formatted text solution.
Also note the really egregious bugs with <img> placement in Flash
text blocks. You may not want to use <img> as an example in <text> at
all.
jim
On Feb 12, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Philip Romanik wrote:
Hi John,
I got a closer match by inserting a <br/> between the text and
image. It still isn't identical though.
Phil
When the program below is compiled for SWF and then for DHTML, the
placement of the image differs.
I rather expect that this has been covered before, so apologies in
advance if I should know what's up. Is there something I should be
doing differently to ensure identical rendering in swf and dhtml?
Thanks,
jrs
<canvas height="320" >
<text multiline="true" width="300" height="300">
Hello dear friends on the Red Planet! How is the Garden today?
<img src="./images/horse-3.jpg"/>
</text>
</canvas>
