Yeah all the grief is because Flash's TextField's implementation of
rendering HTML text preserves whitespace.



On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]>wrote:

> I think what we want:
>
> An attribute of text (I would name it simply "html"), which if true makes
> the content be interpreted as HTML (which means that whitespace will be
> collapsed unless you insert the appropriate markup to preserve it), and if
> false the content will be displayed verbatim (i.e., <>& will be escaped and
> whitespace will be preserved).
>
> The devil is in how you achieve this cross-runtime.
>
> On 2010-01-27, at 12:20, Max Carlson wrote:
>
> > Wait, this isn't quite right.  It seems the issue is how the browser
> > renders spaces - not whether we're rendering HTML or not...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Max Carlson
> > OpenLaszlo.org
> >
> > On 1/26/10 4:52 PM, Max Carlson wrote:
> >> Change 20100126-maxcarlson-j by maxcarl...@bank on 2010-01-26 16:45:13
> PST
> >>     in /Users/maxcarlson/openlaszlo/trunk-clean
> >>     for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk
> >>
> >> Summary: Add support for HTML display to lztext
> >>
> >> Bugs Fixed: LPP-7558 - DHTML<text>  does not preserve whitespace,
> LPP-6617 - Text should be able to be plain or html
> >>
> >> Technical Reviewer: ptw
> >> QA Reviewer: hminsky
> >>
> >> Details: LzSprite - Add htmltext capability, set to true
> >>
> >> LzTextSprite - Implement setHTML(), handle changes to overflow and
> whitespace CSS properties.
> >>
> >> LzInputText - Deprecate setHTML() in favor of displayhtml attribute.
> >>
> >> LzTextSprite - Add setHTML(), deprecate in favor of displayhtml
> attribute.
> >>
> >> Tests: This test shows whitespace in DHTML:
> >> <canvas>
> >>     <text id="txt" bgcolor="#ffaaaa" text=" Hello    Laszlo! "
> displayhtml="true"/>
> >> </canvas>
> >>
> >>
> >> Files:
> >> M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/dhtml/LzSprite.js
> >> M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/dhtml/LzTextSprite.js
> >> M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/views/LzInputText.lzs
> >> M       WEB-INF/lps/lfc/views/LzText.lzs
> >>
> >> Changeset:
> http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20100126-maxcarlson-j.tar
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