Browser HTML Source & URLs

[Richard Gaskin]

Brian Milby wrote:

 > Htmltext of a field is not the same as htmltext of the browser widget.

One of the best ideas Mark Waddingham ever had that he later abandoned 
was about ten years ago when he proposed adding "xmlText" as a synonym 
for "htmlText", flagging "htmlText" for eventual deprecation.

The best idea he never expressed having was calling the browser widget 
property "html" rather than "htmlText". Because that's what it is.

HTML is not htmlText.

Using that name for the field property hints at field capabilities that 
don't exist.

And then using that same name for the VERY different data in the browser 
object only makes a bad name worse.

I can understand why "htmlText" was used in the mid-90s when it was 
introduced, but it wasn't really a solid fit even then, and has become 
ever less like HTML every year since, causing ever more confusion.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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