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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror problems
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-09-29 13:20:17
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On Fre, 29 Sep 2000, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:

> - When you load a webpage which has a form (e.g. a multilineedit), you start 
> typing before loading finished, the cursor jumps to the beginning of the 
> multilineedit when loading the page finished. That is really annoying.

Hmm, good question. I can't think of any reason, except you hit the
hide()/show() hack (i.e. the curser gets reset on hideEvent/showEvent). 

Its part of the problem how to hide widget elements in khtml as long as
they're not yet layouted.. I'm currently trying to find a fix for it. 

> Besides that, why do we use fixed fonts instead of the default (normally 
> proportional) font in webforms? Looks ugly in comparison to proportional ones 
> IMO.

change your default style sheet ;)

the reason is that HTML4 defines the width of those lineedits in webpages
relative to the character width, i.e. <input type=text size=20> will create
a lineedit that has room for 20 characters. you cannot really do that with
proportional fonts, as it would mess up the layout of some pages relying on
the width of the form element..

well, it could be changed anyway. I've no real opinion about it. any
comments?

hmm, does any other browser use proportional fonts for webforms?



Dirk

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