On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:34:20PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > While we’re on that topic… > > I recall having complained here about lynx converting, for instance, > ‘…’ (U+2026) to “...” (three times U+002E) in input fields before > submitting a form.
I assume it does that for the 7-bit approximations (it shouldn't do that otherwise). ... > As you can see, the “submit” button is still marked with [14] although > it should have been a [16] (and 14<return> indeed goes to the fourth > line, not to the button). I hadn't noticed that one. > Another bug with form field numbering is, that if you have an input > field like this one: > <input type=text size=13 name="Kunde" ID="Text1"><br> > > You get the following: > [9]__________ > > Basically, the [9] are three characters, and the text field’s size > is reduced by these (probably due to layout considerations, but as > HTML is flowing and line-breaking freely anyway, I don’t endorse > these). Now this gets bad if the input field size is, say, 4. That > example is actually from the webpage where my employer asks us to > enter our working hours (i.e. start and end), and I don't like having > only one or two “underscores” for a full 24-hour value to enter. :-( > I think this bug also is the cause for the already-reported misdrawing > of the option screen: perhaps - there's more than one place where an off-by-one can lurk here. > General Preferences > User mode : [5][(3)__Advanced____] > Editor : > [6]jupp____________________________________ > _ > Type of Search : [7][(1)__Case insensitive] > > There’s probably another off-by-one somewhere. (That was 80x24 uxterm.) > > Tom, I guess you don’t use link and/or form field numbering yourself, > as these bugs have been existing for quite a while; may I ask you to > check on them some time? yes, I haven't forgotten (I've been working the past couple of months to make vile handle Unicode, to finish off a release...) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
