observation Re: report html generation question

2009-01-21 Thread Arthur Ralfs
Derek Atkins wrote: >> >> >> >> This html appears not to be the html I expected to get looking at the >> >> scheme code. >> >> >> >> Why is this? I would much rather get the scheme generated html than >> >> this. >> > > > > Because GtkHTML sucks. > > > > What you're seeing is HTML fed to Gtk

Re: report html generation question

2009-01-10 Thread Josh Sled
Arthur Ralfs writes: > Since the opinion of GtkHTML does not appear to be high in this context > I presume > there must me some other reason for its use. History/legacy use. In the mean time, the resurgence of competition between browsers has led to more options. GtkWebkit is probably right up

Re: report html generation question

2009-01-10 Thread Arthur Ralfs
Josh Sled wrote: > Arthur Ralfs writes: > >> Why is this? I would much rather get the scheme generated html than this. >> > > I believe we ask gtkhtml to do the export, and it serializes its own > representation of the document rather than emitting the generated html. > I'd agree that it'

Re: report html generation question

2009-01-09 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Quoting Arthur Ralfs : [snip] > > This html appears not to be the html I expected to get looking at the > scheme code. > > Why is this? I would much rather get the scheme generated html than this. Because GtkHTML sucks. What you're seeing is HTML fed to GtkHTML and then re-exported from Gt

Re: report html generation question

2009-01-09 Thread Josh Sled
Arthur Ralfs writes: > Why is this? I would much rather get the scheme generated html than this. I believe we ask gtkhtml to do the export, and it serializes its own representation of the document rather than emitting the generated html. I'd agree that it's less than ideal, but such is the repor

report html generation question

2009-01-09 Thread Arthur Ralfs
Hello gnucash developers, I've recently joined this list because I was looking at the report system. Examining a simple hello world report I see an elaborate scheme structure to generate html. However when I export the report as html I don't see any evidence of this scheme generated html. To be