Re: Composer inserting blank lines into html source

Rick Slansky wrote:
> Running Netscape 7.2
> Preferences set Composer -> "Retain Original source formatting"
> 
> This is not critical, since blank lines don't mean anything in html, but 
> it is annoying when trying to keep the file readable. It seems to happen 
> whenever a file is saved and re-opened. Over time there are big vertical 
> gaps in the file.
> 
> Is this a bug or what?

I think it is, but it's not one that the people working on Composer 
particularly care about.  Composer writes out the file from the internal 
DOM representation of the document, not by rewriting the HTML source 
code.  See this bug and its dependents:

  http://mozillanews.org/bugzilla_warning.php3?id=174361

This would be much less of an issue if a solid HTML Diff program were 
available.  I've played around with this:
  http://htmlmatch.com/
but it's not quite there.

-- 
Michael Cowperthwaite

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