<Swing Dev> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicHTML.isHTMLString(String)

Fri Aug 2 08:47:10 UTC 2013

Hello,

My original message is still awaiting approval by the list moderator.  If
my mail was sent to the wrong list, please let me know.  Otherwise, please
kindly approve the previous mail.

Kind regards,
Kevin

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Kevin Connor Arpe <kevinarpe at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to this mailing list.
>
> I was playing around with HTML + text labels on Swing widgets today.  I
> noticed that the sniff test for HTML is defined by this static method:
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicHTML.isHTMLString(String)
>
> The test is quite strict.  Basically, the string must start with "<html>"
> -- no whitespace allowed, but it is case insensitive.
>
> If there is a good reason for this strictness, please let me know.
> Otherwise, I would like to submit a small patch (+ test) to improve this
> static method to be more forgiving.  If OK, please also advise about JDK7u
> vs JDK8.  (I don't know if a [simple] patch can be applied to both releases
> easily.)
>
> In Perl regex parlance, something like: m/\s*<html\s*>/i
> Of course, my solution probably wouldn't use a regex, nor Perl. =)
>
> Please share you thoughts.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin Connor ARPE
> Hongkong
>
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