Two features I don't understand

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

>
> Rightly so, according to the inventor of the LiveCode engine:  Dr. Raney
> once explained to me that the purpose of htmlText is to provide an
> easily-manipulatable way to faithfully reproduce the entire contents and
> styles within a field or chunk.
>
> Anything less is indeed a bug report. :)
>
> I like the idea of using arrays to manipulate field contents, but alas we
> have so much missing from the the styledText representation at the moment.


so does styledText even have a purpose any more?  Should it be treated as
deprecated?


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