[Phpmyadmin-devel] about the "\n"

[Marc Delisle]

Le 2012-04-27 16:39, Dieter Adriaenssens a écrit :
> Op 27 april 2012 21:11 heeft Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> het
> volgende geschreven:
>> Le 2012-04-27 14:55, Rouslan Placella a écrit :
>>> On 27/04/12 14:26, Marc Delisle wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> When touching a piece of code, if you see a "\n" generated for HTML,
>>>> it's pretty much safe to remove it (if proven otherwise, we'll build a
>>>> wiki page documenting those cases).
>>>>
>>>> The reason was to generate more readable HTML code; now that we
>>>> (hopefully) use Firebug to look at the generated HTML, these "\n" are no
>>>> longer needed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how good of an idea this is. What about the casual user
>>> that might want to have a stab at figuring out where something is going
>>> wrong, for example? Such a user may not have firebug.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> Rouslan
>>
>> It's mostly older parts of the codebase that are using "\n", so this
>> casual user already has this problem.
> 
> For esthetic reasons I prefer to use the "\n", the produced html looks
> cleaner and better structured. It's a bit like using a coding style
> (indentation, ...) to have readable code.

Dieter,
aren't you using Firebug to look at the HTML?

> 
> But it's a lot of work to apply it everywhere, so the question is if
> it's worth the effort.
> I don't need it, I usually use the Find function to find what I'm
> looking for in the html output anyway, or read the sourcecode.
> 


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Marc Delisle
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