Spaces inside [AppendFile]

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1998

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texte = >Hm, according to the HTML specifications a carriage return>should be interpreted as a single space or - like a lot of>browsers do - simply ignored.I think we're mixing two concepts here: what a browser graphically*displays* vs. what bytes are actually in the HTML file. If you do a ViewSource of a web page, you'll see every single space and return character inthere, even if the graphical view doesn't render it. When you're doing an[AppendFile], you're writing to a disk file, which in many cases hasnothing to do with HTML.>It is hard to write HTML mixed with special tags when the>special tags have their own editing rules...There are no special rules -- it writes out exactly what you paste into it.>Would it not be better if WebCat completely ignores carriage>returns and tabs?No, because we don't know if you're writing to an email file, an EDI file,a tab-delimited database or whatever. We consider every character you putin there (or leave out) to be important, because for many people it is.>#2 implement the possibility to write ASCII values i.e.:>[appendfile somefile]sometext[ascii13][/appendfile]Yes, whatever ASCII values you paste in there are exactly what gets writtenout. What you see is what you get, and no need to memorize ASCII numbers.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ====Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Spaces inside [AppendFile] (Peter Ostry 1998)
Spaces inside [AppendFile] (PCS Technical Support 1998)

>Hm, according to the HTML specifications a carriage return>should be interpreted as a single space or - like a lot of>browsers do - simply ignored.I think we're mixing two concepts here: what a browser graphically*displays* vs. what bytes are actually in the HTML file. If you do a ViewSource of a web page, you'll see every single space and return character inthere, even if the graphical view doesn't render it. When you're doing an[appendfile], you're writing to a disk file, which in many cases hasnothing to do with HTML.>It is hard to write HTML mixed with special tags when the>special tags have their own editing rules...There are no special rules -- it writes out exactly what you paste into it.>Would it not be better if WebCat completely ignores carriage>returns and tabs?No, because we don't know if you're writing to an email file, an EDI file,a tab-delimited database or whatever. We consider every character you putin there (or leave out) to be important, because for many people it is.>#2 implement the possibility to write ASCII values i.e.:>[appendfile somefile]sometext[ascii13][/appendfile]Yes, whatever ASCII values you paste in there are exactly what gets writtenout. What you see is what you get, and no need to memorize ASCII numbers.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ====Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ PCS Technical Support

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Spaces inside [AppendFile]

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