can't trust htmltext property!

[Stephen Barncard]

Yes, it would probably work better to roll your own RTF-to-HTML 
converters. RTF in rev seems to be pretty solid. I notice that rev's 
htmltext uses simple FONT tags inline, which is pretty old stuff in 
the web world - in fact not advised. At any rate, the numbers are in 
font SIZES 1 - xxx? - not pixels, and some text gets to be HUGE when 
presented in a web browser. Perhaps there's a scaling factor, but...

Ideally, an RTF to HTML interpreter would imbed style definitions in 
the header, and use DIV tags and .classes for styled paragraphs.

Sounds like a library to me! I love text-munging projects like this...
sqb

>Hi Folks,
>
>why on earth Rev is doing this presentation hack. Put a field on a 
>stack, set the htmltext of the field to "<h2>SOMETHING</h2>", now, 
>pull the html text property and you'll end with something like:
>
><p></p>
><p></p>
><p><font size="24"><b>SOMETHING</b></font></p>
><p></p>
><p></p>

...

>
>HELL the thing is even loosing attributes!!!! if you use something 
>like "<p class="footer">my text</p>" when you check the htmltext 
>prop you end up with no attributes. I think it's okay for rev to 
>ignore the attribute but to loose it.... things should be simpler.
>
>Damn!
>Andre

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