overflow: (Re: HTML for KMail ...)

[Vadim Plessky]

On Friday 19 July 2002 8:26 pm, Marc Mutz wrote:
|  On Friday 19 July 2002 17:14, Vadim Plessky wrote:
|  > On Friday 19 July 2002 6:22 pm, Marc Mutz wrote:
|  > |  On Friday 19 July 2002 15:22, Vadim Plessky wrote:
|  > |  <snip>
|  > |
|  > |  > So, would it be incorporated into KMail's CSS for heders?
|  > |  > Or there is a chance to use pure XML?..
|  > |
|  > |  <snip>
|  > |
|  > |  See my previous mail. XML is totally out of the question, since we
|  > | need to inline HTML content, because of the missing <object>
|  > | functionality in khtml.
|  >
|  > Ok, now I see: <object>  is the real problem in KHTML (not CSS, not
|  > Tables)
|
|  <snip>
|
|  Let's say it this way: For KMail, it would make things _a lot_ easier if
|  <object width="100%"> would just insert a maximum width frame with the

I see small problem here.
AFAIK <object> is so-called *replaced element* in HTML, so userAgent 
*reserves* some space on rendered page, than adjust size according to 
<object> (replaced element) requirement.
// same is valid for <applet>, <img> and may be <form>

So, correct code for case of KMail can be:
1) insert <object>
  ob = document.createElement("object")
2) get width/height of KMail window
 let's say, it's w_width and w_height
3) resize <object> according to width and height.
  ob.width=w_width;
  ob.height=w_height;

I am not sure wether such code witll work in KHTML.
Last time I tried it (via JavaScript) - it was not working.
But this code should work via direct DOM calls.

BTW: my point is that we need to fix *right* thing at a *right* place.

|  content. Esp. with another HTML page. This way, we'd just put every
|  body part's content into an <object> of itself and be done with it:
|  1. It couldn't influcence our css rules
|  2. It could be hidden and shown with a simple DOM call
|  3. We wouldn't need to worry about the kind of data shown there, since
|  khtml would sort it out for us.
|
|  Maybe we should compile a KMail wishlist for khtml ;-)
|
|  Marc
|
|  - --
|  Marc Mutz <mutz at kde.org>


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