Re: How to force IE-Win to accept Unix newline
Re: How to force IE-Win to accept Unix newline
- Subject: Re: How to force IE-Win to accept Unix newline
- From: Thomas Pelaia <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:33 -0400
I do that and more now. There are a couple problems with this
approach. The goal is to preserve the author's intended text. For
example, authors write their text in a TextArea element and they add
spaces and line feeds and such to lineup their text as they wish.
Currently my component has to convert multiple spaces and line feeds
into the appropriate HTML to render a reasonable representation of the
author's intent. However, it is still not perfect, and doing this
comes at a cost of performance. Furthermore, I would now like to allow
users to post entries in HTML. The entries have a switch to indicate
whether they are plain text or HTML. The simplest way to do this is to
create a custom element that generates a response with the appropriate
MIME type and display this element inside an IFrame using WOIFrame.
Then I can get rid of the code that converts text to HTML and I can
create a common way of providing both plain text and HTML content.
This approach is nice and simple. However, the only issue I am facing
is that IE on Windows does not handle Unix line endings properly within
plain text documents.
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Tom Pelaia
Spallation Neutron Source, Accelerator Systems Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
On Apr 26, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
I think it would be best to convert them to <br /> on the way out.
Chuck
On Apr 26, 2005, at 6:51 AM, Thomas Pelaia wrote:
I have written a text component to display a string as plain text so
I can imbed user statements in an IFrame on a page preserving spaces
and such as intended by the user. It works very well, except that IE
on Windows does not handle the Unix newlines properly because Windows
uses CRLF for its line endings and a simple newline means nothing to
IE. Since most entries will be made on Linux machines and many users
view the entries using IE on Windows this is an issue. Is there a
way to force IE to interpret Unix newlines as they were intended?
thanks,
-tom
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Tom Pelaia
Spallation Neutron Source, Accelerator Systems Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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