[Seaside] HTML Encoding change -- why?

[Nevin Pratt]

Ah, I see.  Thanks, Jason.

Of course, this breaks backwards compatibility.  But it is a minor 
change (among the handful of other changes in Seaside 2.5 that effect 
backwards compatibility).

No big deal, though.

Nevin

>If you want to write your own HTML you should send the #html: message.
>
>On 2/14/06, Nevin Pratt <nevin at bountifulbaby.com> wrote:
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>>In Seaside 2.3, I developed a rather sloppy habit of occasionally typing
>>html directly in the #text: or #bold: argument.  Here is an example:
>>
>>   html text: '<br>This is an example'.
>>
>>rather than
>>
>>   html break.
>>   html text: 'This is an example'.
>>
>>Sometimes as I typed, the html would just kind of roll off my fingers,
>>and I would take the above shortcut rather than typing separate lines.
>>
>>But, in Seaside 2.5, this no longer works.  Instead, a text argument
>>like the above will be transformed into:
>>
>>   '&lt;br&gt;This is an example'
>>
>>Which isn't what I expected.  If I had wanted '&lt;' and '&gt;', I would
>>have typed it.
>>
>>Well, I guess I can see value in the automatic transformation, but I can
>>also see value in *not* transforming it.
>>
>>Is there a thread somewhere that talks about the pros and cons of making
>>this change?  What was the rationale for making the change?
>>
>>Nevin
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