192913 - no new lines in html source code output in midas demo

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Documentation Graveyard :: Web Developer, defect)

Description

[Leo H]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

When selecting "View HTML Source", the resulting html source code doesn't have
any new lines - all the code is on one line, making it very difficult to read.
Editing the source code, adding new lines, then switching to regular editing
mode and back to source mode, the new lines are gone again.
This could be a major problem if users try to use the Midas interface to edit
existing html files, expecting the output to preserve the original formatting of
the html in the file.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Joe Francis]

Kathy, is this a dup of anything on your plate?  Does getting source from midas
take a different serialization path than the normal editor?

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassigning this bug to mkaply
The View Source implementation for Midas is specific to the page author and
mkaply wrote this one.  Since it's only a demo, I wouldn't be surprised if he
marked this bug as "wontfix"

Comment 3

[kinmoz]

It's on one line because the implementation of view source simply serializes the
html, creates a text node and then inserts that into the iframe. Document in the
iframe is still "html" so it's going to  render newlines as spaces.

One alternative is to set style="white-space: pre" on the body when showing the
source and then remove it when going back to edit mode. Right?

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Just a demo. Not going to fix.