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Re: lynx-dev textarea


From: Jacob Poon
Subject: Re: lynx-dev textarea
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:36:50 -0400

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Jonathan Stilts wrote:

> Here's a suggestion - It'd be nice to have a staticly defined TextArea,
> where the user can only type into the so many rows and so many columns
> you specified.

This _is_ what currently causes Lynx to break the HTML specs.  Although
long lines can be wrapped under HTML 4, user agents should not rely on the
'rows' attribute to cut off extra rows.  Instead browsers need to provide
means to scroll through such texts.  If you want to cut off extra
rows/cols, you should process form output with scripts. 

> This would be useful for printable forms which you fill in before
> printing - as any text that has gone off the side or the bottom will
> obviously not get printed - wrapping also seems not to work well when
> printing.

OTOH, that's the reason why you may want to print out unfilled form before
filling it in.  Cutting off extra texts usually imply losing something
important, without users' knowledge. 

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