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Re: Disabling HTML form button if any changes made to an edit box?
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lugnet.publish.html
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Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:03:23 GMT
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In lugnet.publish.html, Dan Boger wrote:
> The problem is, that if you have two buttons, one says "Post" and one says
> "Preview", people would assume they're in the same form.
I agree with Dan...especially in light of how it's always been (a single form).
> PS. Is the really bad wrapping in the quoted text a result of the new
> formatting features?
I'm not sure. Can you point me to specific examples of "bad wrapping in the
quoted text"?
One thing that I am aware of, however, is a -lack- of wrapping long quoted
lines in one particular circumstance: Apparently MSIE 6 for Win98 (and possibly
other browsers) takes quoted text and re-line wraps it horribly and into one
long line if you do something within the quoted text that causes a word to wrap.
A reformatted long paragraph is submitted as a single line because WRAP=SOFT is
specified in the <TEXTAREA> tag, and MSIE has no way of knowing that you're
editing a message quoted with ">" characters.
Why WRAP=SOFT instead of WRAP=HARD?
In the beginning, the <TEXTAREA> tag specified WRAP=HARD. In October of 2000 it
was discovered, however, that MSIE took this a bit too literally and massacred
URLs longer than the width of the window. So the form was changed
to use WRAP=SOFT for MSIE and WRAP=HARD for all other browsers, and code was
added to automatically break any long lines received. Since WRAP=SOFT had never
caused any problems, I enabled it for all browsers on May 27, 2003
(just last week). (Note that changed behavior for non-MSIE browsers, but
kept the behavior the same for MSIE.)
In theory, WRAP=SOFT should work better if not as good as WRAP=HARD, provided
that the server breaks long lines when it receives them.
The problem as I understand it today is that some long lines beginning with
">" are sneaking through. The wrapping semantics haven't changed much at
all, and in particular the semantics of lines beginning with ">" haven't
changed at all: Lines beginning with ">" never get wrapped, period.
But perhaps they should -- in the case of excessively long lines (like 120+
characters long), and especially in the case where the line is obviously a
massacred jumble of quoted material with ">" characters appearing every 70
or so character positions.
> Any chance that'll be fixed?
Ya.
--Todd
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