Couple of HTML questions

[matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de]

Colin,

i my previous comment i posted a link to a html5 stack which posts the selected text of a field to a Livecode Server script. Posting should definitely work.



> Am 14.09.2021 um 00:42 schrieb Colin Holgate via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> I do see a message when trying the post, that says exception thrown, see JavaScript Console. There are too many error lines to be sure which one of them is important. I get no error when trying to set the style of the text, which makes me think that the field is a plain text field.
> 
> When I test the stack inside LiveCode, the style changes and the post are working.
> 
>> On Sep 13, 2021, at 3:14 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Colin,
>> If it is HTML5 deployment you are looking to do from LC, how time critical
>> is your project? At the moment, HTML5 deployment is still quite broken in
>> many ways. It may be best to wait until LC10 which is using a whole new
>> engine (which looks very promising).
>> 
>> That said, the current engine 'CAN' do what you have 'asked' for sure, both
>> 'post tData to URL(tUrl)' and 'set the textstyle of char 10 to 20 of fld
>> "myField" to "bold"' (although that will depend on what texttype is already
>> in that field potentially - it can be a bit kooky at times).
>> 
>> Other things in html5 deployment you will run into that will most likely
>> frustrate a little.
>> 
>> Regarding 'post', note the following from the LC dictionary:
>> Cross-platform note: The HTML5 engine only supports HTTP and HTTPs
>> protocols. ((ie, you can't use file;//, ftp://, etc))
>> Cross-platform note: URLs fetched by the HTML5 engine from a domain other
>> than that of the hosting the page may be blocked by web browsers, unless
>> the server hosting the URL sets the "Access-Control-Origin" header
>> appropriately. ((But as you are likely hosting the PHP you will have
>> control over that))
>> 
>> If you run into any specific HTML5 deployment issues I'd be happy to help
>> you through if you want to PM me at all.
>> 
>> Sean
>> 
>> On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 20:20, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Colin,
>>> 
>>> just tried here with a Livecode Server script not with a php script.
>>> 
>>> Posting data from an Html5 stack to an url definitely works.
>>> (see https://livecode.dermattes.de/postmr/postmr.html <
>>> https://livecode.dermattes.de/postmr/postmr.html>)
>>> 
>>> What i do not get working is setting the text style. Even if i set the
>>> style already in the IDE and built the html5 standalone the text style is
>>> reset to plain when the html5 stack is displayed in the browser.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 13.09.2021 um 04:53 schrieb Colin Holgate via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> I want to have an online text editor, that can post some styled text,
>>> that then gets read into a desktop stack. There are a lot of HTML styled
>>> text editors around, but I thought I may as well try using LiveCode for
>>> that part as well.
>>>> 
>>>> Two issues I’ve hit are the setting of the style of the text, and then
>>> posting the text to a PHP script, that stores the HTML changes.
>>>> 
>>>> Can these lines work in an HTML published stack?:
>>>> 
>>>> post data to URL theurl
>>>> 
>>>> and:
>>>> 
>>>> set the textstyle of the selection to bold
>>>> 
>>>> 
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