Re: [cssparser-developers] TAB handling

[Alan K. <al...@tr...>]

Waldbaer wrote:
> Well, I did some _changes_, but I did not write the original code. David?
>   
If I'm reading the diff correctly, it claims those lines were added in 
that revision.
> The problem that I see with this special treatment is that some viewing 
> applications may treat a TAB char as 8, some as 4, some as 2 characters 
> wide. In fact it's still only one character.
>
> I propose to remove the whole case block for '\t'
I agree.  This is really presentation logic embedded in the parser.  The 
caller can expand the returned column based on how it treats tabs, but 
that's not something the parser itself needs to do.