Re: Question on CGIDEV2

Brad,

Would wrapping the file content in <pre></pre> tags be too simplistic?

Joel
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On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 20:22, Brad Stone wrote:
> Trust me, I use Firefox (mozilla actually, same thing) for
> development.  :) But when doing what I described, you need
> to make sure it works for all browsers, especially IE,
> which most use and will for some time to come.
> 
> I explained in my response to Mel why I am looking for how
> to do this with CGIDEV2.  (not Javascript escape(), if
> that's what you meant).
> 
> Sort of like a source viewer for files on the system.  If
> you are listing files and click on them to view, I'd like
> to call one CGI program that passes in the file name, the
> app loads that file as the "template", and then displays
> it...  if there is any Markup in it, it needs to be
> converted to be displayed properly.
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:17:44 -0600
>  "Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Brad,
> > The best solution is to start using the FireFox browser.
> > It handles this
> > correctly.
> > The only other solution is to escape() the entire body of
> > the HTML.
> > -Bob
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Brad Stone
> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:42 PM
> > To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> > Subject: [WEB400] Question on CGIDEV2
> > 
> > Let's assume that you have a file that you want to load
> > and
> > display in it's entirety on the web page.
> > 
> > Let's assume this web page is HTML (or contains HTML),
> > but
> > you want it displayed as text, in other words, all
> > containers, etc (like displaying the source of a web
> > page).
> > 
> > Let's also assume this file is either a static HTML page
> > or
> > a template containing HTML.
> > 
> > How would I go about replacing the < with &lt; if that
> > file
> > was loaded as a template before writing the template to
> > the
> > web page?  
> > 
> > Now, changing the context type is not an option.
> >  (besides,
> > it doesn't work with IE anyhow... LOL!)  You have to
> > change
> > all occurances of < to &lt;, but you can't change the
> > original document.
> > 
> > Just looking for a way to do this with CGIDEV2.
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