From kfm-devel  Mon May 31 09:40:42 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:40:42 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: khtml
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Lars Knoll wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I added a 'plaintext' mode for KHTML. The idea is that the HTMLWidget can also
> > act as a sort of kless. I hope to add automatic URL-highlighting as well.
> > (e.g. e-mail addresses and URL's should become clickable).
> 
> Nice. But just to be sure. Don't you think that should be handled by a
> different widget? Konqueror does anyway call different widgets, according
> to mime type.

Hmmm.. Perhaps. KHTML basically has all the functionality for it. So
we get it almost for free. 

> > I wanted to add the HTML-tag 'plain' or 'plaintext' for this, but I don't
> > have gperf so I have just added it to the khtmltags.h.
> 
> I could run gperf and add it.

I guess it should be renamed to PLAINTEXT, since this is an old HTML-tag
which does about the same. 
 
> > Do you think this is a usefull feature to have?
> 
> Having plain text display is for sure a useful feature. I'm just not sure,
> if we should have in in khtml or make some seperate widget. Anyway, I'll
> have a look at your code this evening.

The only problem I can see is that it's not very memory efficient.
Looking at a 700Kb file takes 2.1Mb of memory.

On the plus side, it would be quite easy to view files with
different charsets, including true unicode. (Although for plain
text-files the charset-detection will most likely not work)

Cheers,
Waldo