Re: [9fans] libhtml vs. <pre> tags

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

>in my hasty reading of libhtml i was thinking that the tokenization is almost
>correct. the only change needed is to not translate \t to 8 spaces. on output,

I don't think this is needed since when there is a <pre> tag,
libhtml set the Item->flag to IFwrap, so this item should be treated
in a different way, this is what abaco should do.

>for rendering, perhaps the solution is to add a flag indicating that the output 
>is <pre>-formatted and just memcpy() the text in render.

As I said the flag is already there, In my opinion libhtml is ok,
charon uses it (libhtml was a part of "I" web browser, which is a charon's translation
from limbo to c), what needs to be improved is abaco.

>i was impressed with how little the tokenizing and rendering code was 
>special cased, given how ad hoc html is. however, otoh, maybe <pre> should be
>handled in a special manner, with the tokenizer just converting character
>sets and entities and treating that result as one big Bytes*.

cheers

Federico G.Benavento

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