[Laszlo-dev] Raw HTML

Tue Feb 13 11:54:41 PST 2007

I like the sentiment of LCD, just not that LCD is the buggy SWF  
implementation...

Perhaps text should not allow html at all?  That would certainly be  
low and common.

On 2007-02-13, at 14:16 EST, Jim Grandy wrote:

> Well, that raises a question about our DHTML implementation of <text>:
>
> Should we generate markup that makes it look like how Flash formats  
> Text blocks? Here it would be to put appropriate CSS on the img tag  
> so that it clears past the text paragraph. Or is Flash so broken in  
> so many ways that we should just punt?
>
> From the perspective of differentiating <text> from <html>, it  
> would help if we could say that <text> is a "least-common- 
> denominator" solution, and that does argue for making <text> behave  
> more consistently across runtimes.
>
> jim
>
> On Feb 13, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Philip Romanik wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Why don't you submit a jira bug because it is such a simple example.
>>
>>
>> In dhtml, the  generated code looks like (in FF1.5):
>>
>> <div class="lzswftext" style="overflow: visible; height: 300px;
>> -moz-user-select: none; width: 300px; clip: rect(0px, 300px,  
>> 300px, 0px); display: block; z-index: 2;"> Hello dear friends on  
>> the Red Planet! How is the Garden today? <img src="./horse-3.jpg"/ 
>> > </div>
>>
>> For people that don't have time to run the example, the text wraps  
>> around the image in dhtml. In swf, the text is displayed and the  
>> image is displayed beneath it.
>>
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>> Is this a bug, or is the placement not determined?
>>>
>>> My concern is not to get them looking the same, but to document the
>>> expected behavior.  Any guidance appreciated.
>>>
>>> jrs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Philip Romanik wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi John,
>>> >
>>> > I got a closer match by inserting a <br/> between the text and
>>> > image. It still isn't identical though.
>>> >
>>> > Phil
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> When the program below is compiled for SWF and then for DHTML,  
>>> the
>>> >> placement of the image differs.
>>> >>
>>> >> I rather expect that this has been covered before, so  
>>> apologies in
>>> >> advance if I should know what's up.  Is there something I  
>>> should be
>>> >> doing differently to ensure identical rendering in swf and dhtml?
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >> jrs
>>> >>
>>> >> <canvas height="320" >
>>> >>    <text multiline="true" width="300" height="300">
>>> >>      Hello dear friends on the Red Planet! How is the Garden  
>>> today?
>>> >>      <img src="./images/horse-3.jpg"/>
>>> >>    </text>
>>> >> </canvas>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>
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