Re: chopping of string

From:
 Andrew Thompson <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:29:32 -0700
Message-ID:
<1191936572.293556.307860@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 6, 3:41 pm, "Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe> wrote:

RoedyGreen wrote:


(re: comments in HTML, as rendered by JEditorPane)

Yes, I note they are visible, but had you validated the
page recently?

....

The fool JEditorPane is rendering all comments as text.


I am *finally* convinced.

I went hunting for lint checkers (for Java), and
of course the Java Glossary was in the top 5 hits,
so I surfed over to..
<http://mindprod.com/jgloss/lint.html>
...then. I noticed something odd* in my 'browser'
(IE 6) and did some further checking.

- That URL according to the W3C validator..
  "This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!"
- Contains comments
- *Displays* the text of the comments when
rendered in JEditorPane.

So, you are right in that even entirely valid
and well-formed HTML can be screwed up to that
extent, in the J2SE 1.6 JEditorPane.

Perhaps it is something in the styles.

What a pity. :-(

* Oh, and the odd thing? IE 6 inserts a 'space'
to the right of the page content, for no apparent
reason - all the content is rendered within 100%
of the visible window width. This forces the page
to always have a horizontal scrollbar, no matter
how much/little screen space is devoted to it.

(mutters) Damn fool IE.

Andrew T.

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