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

Mon Aug 5 14:10:51 UTC 2013

On 8/2/2013 12:47 PM, Kevin Connor Arpe wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Kevin Connor Arpe 
> <kevinarpe at gmail.com <mailto: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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