It Works! (Somewhat)

Some features here:

1. Most common tags like:
   • bold
   • italic
   • underline
   • BR, P
     line breaks
   • FONT tag support, controlling:
     1. font styles
     2. font sizes
     3. font colors
2. Clickable links tell you the URL and clickText --> try me!
3. Controlling background, text, & link colors
4. Different kinds of lists...
   1. Ordered:
      1. item 1
      2. item 2
   2. Unordered:
      • item 1
      • item 2
   3. Descriptive:

      item 1

      description of item 1

      item 2

5. Viewing image alt tags, with link to the image source:
6. PRE tags:

     some formatted text

7. Converting special characters: ©, ¥, ¢

Possible Future Enhancements:

• Going back from styled text to HTML.
• Rendering on the fly, so that for instance you can start rendering a web page before you've downloaded the entire HTML file.
• Mucho speed improvements
• Change to canvas instead of editfield, to support inline images, for instance.
• CENTER, align=RIGHT support
• Better error handling, & make it easier to check syntax
• This is REALbasic, so somehow support for HTML forms using REALbasic's own controls should be possible.

Some webpages...

• REALbasic Homepage
• Doug's RB page
• Apple Developer page

Please email me at doug.holton@vanderbilt.edu if you have any questions/problems/requests.

Last Modified: October 10, 1998