seems that any major js framework accessing data-* do the escaping (as they should) so it's really not a problem.
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:01:22 PM UTC+1, Anthony wrote: > > Yeah, I suppose it's not necessary as long as " within the string > never causes any problems. > > Anthony > > On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:47:10 AM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote: >> >> but why since data=dict(options='{"mode" : "calbox"}') works fine ? >> >> Il giorno martedì 29 ottobre 2013 13:49:12 UTC+1, Anthony ha scritto: >>> >>> Anyway, it might not be a bad idea to allow the option to use single >>> quotes around an HTML attribute, though not sure of the best way to achieve >>> that. Maybe use a double underscore to identify such attributes: >>> >>> INPUT(..., **{'__data-options': XML('{"mode":"calbox"}')}) >>> >>> or add a "json" argument to specify attributes to be treated as JSON: >>> >>> INPUT(..., json={'data-options': '{"mode":"calbox"}'}) >>> >>> In the above case, it would know to use single quotes and to wrap the >>> string in XML(). Perhaps it could also be smart enough to take a dict or >>> list and automatically convert to a JSON string. >>> >>> Anthony >>> >>> On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:36:19 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> @Anthony >>>>> >>>>> from module import * >>>>> def f(): >>>>> header = ... >>>>> content = GRID(... ( # CALBOX used to create one of the columns >>>>> footer = .... >>>>> return {'page':PAGE(header, content, footer)} >>>>> >>>> >>>> I guess it's hard to say without knowing what those other functions do, >>>> but I don't think web2py is not doing the escaping (at least, if you >>>> include the XML object I suggested either directly in a page or within an >>>> HTML helper, the quotes do not get escaped when the view is serialized). >>>> >>>> Anthony >>>> >>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.