FF issues on xhtml/css

[Dirk Frederickx <di...@gmail.com>]

I was looking into JSPWiki printing issues on FF and IE, running into
following issue.
(  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-128  )

Here is the html :
{{{

<h2>some header </h2>
First part of the text has no tags around it ...
<div class="commentbox">
Here is a commentbox
</div>
More text is comming here after.

}}}

Here is the css for commentbox
{{{
.commentbox { float : left; }


}}}

This renders perfecty on various browsers: Safari, Opera, Mozilla.
However, Firefox (also Camino) freak out: printing yields an blank page !
Removing the float style resolves the problem.

Apparently, having float elements subsequent to html #text elements
seems to give problems.

One rough measure is just remove all foats from printed pages.


Any other suggestions ?


dirk

Re: FF issues on xhtml/css

[Janne Jalkanen <Ja...@ecyrd.com>]

'Cos it's sometimes really hard to figure out where the <p> tags may  
or may not go.  JSPWikiMarkupParser.paragraphify() tries real hard,  
but it does sometimes get it wrong.

In fact, I would very much like to get rid of <p> tags altogether,  
and move to pure <div>s with a paragraph class.  You can see that  
many blogging software (e.g. blogger) already does this - they put in  
two <br/> -tags for paragraph breaks, and put a div around everything  
else.

It's really easy to get invalid HTML with plugins.  If a plugin  
contains a block element (e.g. div or hr) you must close the <p>  
before calling a plugin - but there's no way to know.  You can't  
close paragraphs just randomly...

So you can't rely on the <p> tag being there.

(Yeah, we could pipe everything through jtidy.  But that would slow  
things down quite a bit.)

/Janne

On 12 Jan 2008, at 23:23, Dirk Frederickx wrote:

> Janne,
>
> That's exactly what I'm doing ;-)
> Just ran into this strange bug while testing.
>
> Why is jspwiki not --always-- rending text inside html tags.
>
> Eg
> <h2>Title</h2> text text text
>
> or
>
> <h2>Title</h2><p> text text text</p>
>
>
> Any particular reason for this ?
>
>
> dirk
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 6:43 PM, Janne Jalkanen <Ja...@ecyrd.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> How about defining it differently on the print stylesheet?  We do
>> have jspwiki_print.css for exactly this purpose.
>>
>> /Janne
>>
>>
>> On 12 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Dirk Frederickx wrote:
>>
>>> I was looking into JSPWiki printing issues on FF and IE, running  
>>> into
>>> following issue.
>>> (  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-128  )
>>>
>>> Here is the html :
>>> {{{
>>>
>>> <h2>some header </h2>
>>> First part of the text has no tags around it ...
>>> <div class="commentbox">
>>> Here is a commentbox
>>> </div>
>>> More text is comming here after.
>>>
>>> }}}
>>>
>>> Here is the css for commentbox
>>> {{{
>>> .commentbox { float : left; }
>>>
>>>
>>> }}}
>>>
>>> This renders perfecty on various browsers: Safari, Opera, Mozilla.
>>> However, Firefox (also Camino) freak out: printing yields an blank
>>> page !
>>> Removing the float style resolves the problem.
>>>
>>> Apparently, having float elements subsequent to html #text elements
>>> seems to give problems.
>>>
>>> One rough measure is just remove all foats from printed pages.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions ?
>>>
>>>
>>> dirk
>>
>>

Re: FF issues on xhtml/css

[Dirk Frederickx <di...@gmail.com>]

Janne,

That's exactly what I'm doing ;-)
Just ran into this strange bug while testing.

Why is jspwiki not --always-- rending text inside html tags.

Eg
<h2>Title</h2> text text text

or

<h2>Title</h2><p> text text text</p>


Any particular reason for this ?


dirk

On Jan 12, 2008 6:43 PM, Janne Jalkanen <Ja...@ecyrd.com> wrote:
>
> How about defining it differently on the print stylesheet?  We do
> have jspwiki_print.css for exactly this purpose.
>
> /Janne
>
>
> On 12 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Dirk Frederickx wrote:
>
> > I was looking into JSPWiki printing issues on FF and IE, running into
> > following issue.
> > (  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-128  )
> >
> > Here is the html :
> > {{{
> >
> > <h2>some header </h2>
> > First part of the text has no tags around it ...
> > <div class="commentbox">
> > Here is a commentbox
> > </div>
> > More text is comming here after.
> >
> > }}}
> >
> > Here is the css for commentbox
> > {{{
> > .commentbox { float : left; }
> >
> >
> > }}}
> >
> > This renders perfecty on various browsers: Safari, Opera, Mozilla.
> > However, Firefox (also Camino) freak out: printing yields an blank
> > page !
> > Removing the float style resolves the problem.
> >
> > Apparently, having float elements subsequent to html #text elements
> > seems to give problems.
> >
> > One rough measure is just remove all foats from printed pages.
> >
> >
> > Any other suggestions ?
> >
> >
> > dirk
>
>

Re: FF issues on xhtml/css

[Janne Jalkanen <Ja...@ecyrd.com>]

How about defining it differently on the print stylesheet?  We do  
have jspwiki_print.css for exactly this purpose.

/Janne

On 12 Jan 2008, at 17:25, Dirk Frederickx wrote:

> I was looking into JSPWiki printing issues on FF and IE, running into
> following issue.
> (  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-128  )
>
> Here is the html :
> {{{
>
> <h2>some header </h2>
> First part of the text has no tags around it ...
> <div class="commentbox">
> Here is a commentbox
> </div>
> More text is comming here after.
>
> }}}
>
> Here is the css for commentbox
> {{{
> .commentbox { float : left; }
>
>
> }}}
>
> This renders perfecty on various browsers: Safari, Opera, Mozilla.
> However, Firefox (also Camino) freak out: printing yields an blank  
> page !
> Removing the float style resolves the problem.
>
> Apparently, having float elements subsequent to html #text elements
> seems to give problems.
>
> One rough measure is just remove all foats from printed pages.
>
>
> Any other suggestions ?
>
>
> dirk