Problem with setting htmlText of field to empty in LiveCode 6.6 RC2

Wed Mar 19 15:24:18 EDT 2014

Using <html> was an example. If you have in an HTML file, the
browser will still render the HTML as empty. Of course there are tons of
tags will accomplish the same.

And if the HTMLtext is limited to a field, then the field is essentially
the entire document.  The HTML isn't describing the content of a stack,
just the field's content.

Both and no text at all both count as empty when it comes to
*viewing* HTML. So it would seem both are valid as far as HTML is
concerned. But the two situations are different when it comes to code.

BTW, I'm not proposing LiveCode *should* return as a default for
empty HTML text, but I think it should be allowed to do so.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design

On 3/19/14 12:08 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <lists at mangomultimedia.com> wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Maybe it helps (or hinders) to consider the fact the following renders
>>as
>> empty in a web browser, even though clearly there is code content
>>present:
>>
>> <html>
>> <body>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>
>True. But doesn't <p></p> mean that you have 1 empty paragraph? I think
>that the HTML returned by LiveCode (1 empty paragraph) is different than
>what is present in the field (nothing).
>
>Since the htmltext is a property of a field, and no an entire document,
>I'm
>inclined to say that the htmltext should return empty and not <p></p> when
>there is not text present.
>
>-- 
>Trevor DeVore
>Blue Mango Learning Systems
>www.screensteps.com    -    www.clarify-it.com
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