Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] Beta 0.835 - Still line numbering problem

[Marc G. <mg...@sk...>]

Hello,

It is quite long to explain. But you have to imagine that the source of=20
a HTML is represented as HTML in Firefox.
Nice HTML with a lot of <pre> tags.

So, to put the line numbers, there are several ways.
1) rewrite everything (it would be very long). There is a bug in=20
Bugzilla for it. You can vote to get it fixed !
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D246620
2) modify the HTML containing the source of the HTML to add line numbers.
    If I do this, I have 2 possibilities
    a) before each line, add a line number.
       But it has a lot of inconvenients. The line number become=20
selectable. And it does not align well vertically.
       But the real problem is that it is very slow. Adding lines to a=20
page with 5000 lines takes 30 sec what nobody is ready to wait so long.
       If this was done, line wrapping would be possible.

   In short this give this:
 =20
Line without wrapping
	1.  This is a long long long long long line.
2.  It it line 2.
Choice A
	1.  This is a long long
long long long line.
2.   It it line 2.


    b) add a frame next to the source code with line numbers:
        This is what I do. It is a lot faster about 2 sec or less for=20
5000 lines.
        But if you do line-wrapping the line will not coincide between=20
the 2 frames.
        This is why the line-wrapping and line-number are incompatible=20
for now.

   In short this give this:
 =20
Line =B2without wrapping
	1.
2.
	This is a long long long long long line.
It it line 2.
Choice B
	1.
2.
	This is a long long
long long long line.
It it line 2.



So, like you see both way have problems:
1) is a too big work, has to be done in C/C++
2) a) is too slow
    b) works but no line numbers.

I am open to any good solution :-)
I hope it explains the problem and why it is not solvable easily.

Marc



Spectroscope wrote:
> Just loaded the new beta. I'm aware that this has been discussed (I wro=
te
> myself earlier that there was another thread) but I can't find this dis=
cussion
> anymore.
>
> So her it goes again: When I enable "Show line numbers" in the "View" m=
enu the
> two menu items "Wrap long lines" and "Syntax highlighting" get lost. Wh=
ile the
> latter feature doesn't seem to be affected the wrapping turns off and c=
an't
> turned on again, even when you disable the line numbering after that.
>
> Any chance of a fix for that?
>
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