Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.7dev.10

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Thomas Dickey dixit:
>
> > * implement "readonly" attribute for TEXTAREA and TEXT fields -TD
>
> How? Do you convert them to normal text, or keep them as text fields
> which are just unmodifiable?

the latter.  lynx already treated the "disabled" attribute in the way
that was needed for readonly, so I added it to that flow.  I also modified
the ^X-e logic so that while you can edit an external file with the
textarea's content, it won't be read back into the page.

> The latter is inacceptable, because amost always, these read-only
> text fields are too small for their content and need horizontal
> scrolling (sometimes) or even using ^Xe on them to be able to read
> them fully (for example business terms and conditions).
>
> If they were just converted to the equivalent of P tags, for instance,
> this would probably be okay.

but then one couldn't navigate - keep in mind that text fields can contain
data that is only visible by left/right scrolling on a line.  Making them
totally inert would prevent that from being seen.

> Consider also the links-and-textfields-are-numbered bug, where the
> space used for [ plus number plus ] is subtracted from the INNER
> width of the textfields (and still displaying is not always right,
> e.g. in the options screen).

yes, I know - didn't get to it.  There are some rough places in dev.10
that I have next on my list to iron out (some of the Unix platforms need
work to make the print-format stuff auto-configure properly).

patches of course, are welcome...

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