This uses classList property, which is well-supported now: both Chromium 8.0+,
Firefox 3.6+ and Opera 11.5+ support it, as well as relatively modern versions
of other browsers.
All the source lines are put in a <pre> tag, which gives correct display and
copy&paste in both Chromium (WebKit) and FireFox: line numbers are not copied,
all the tabs and spaces are kept. This doesn't change the visual appearance
of the view compared to current hgweb version and doesn't use any JS code.
Also, stripes in this view are now generated clientside with CSS.
This implementation is chosen because other variants have important issues:
Strategy FF Chrome
current D,LT,E,T,L D,L
pre S,NW S,NW
pre/div/nbsp LT,E,T,TS,NW TS,NW
pre/div/br LT,E,T,NW NW
ol/li/nbsp LT,E,T,TS,AJ TS,AJ
ol/li/br LT,E,T,AJ AJ
pre/span LV LV
Legend
Strategies:
- current: implemented in hgweb before this patch, i.e. divs for each line,
and line numbers links in the div too
- pre: the whole code in one pre tag with newlines, all line numbers
in another one with 'float: left'
- pre/div/{nbsp,br}: same as just 'pre', but separate divs for each line and
or <br> instead of empty lines (otherwise they are not copied at all)
- ol/li/{nbsp,br}: a single ol with li's and divs for each line,
or <br> same as in previous strategy
- pre/span: this patch
Problems:
D = (very minor) display problems, like wrong width of leading tabs
LT = loses leading/trailing whitespace
E = loses embedded whitespace
B = loses blank lines
T = loses tabs
L = selects line numbers
LV = (only) visually selects line numbers
LVE = (only) visually selects line numbers at empty lines
S = no stripes (and no ability to easily highlight
lines-which-are-linked-at in the future)
TS = space copied instead of empty line
AJ = get anchor links only with JS (they work even without)
NW = no linewrap easily possible (in future)
As for browser versions compatibility, the CSS tricks used are supported in
(according to caniuse.com):
a) line numbers generation with 'content:' property and CSS counters:
IE 8+, all other popular browsers (in pre-WebKit Opera numbers are being copied)
b) stripes ('nth-child' selector):
IE 8+, FF 3.5+, Safari 3.2+, Opera 9.5+, all other popular browsers
c) line numbers are not visually selected ('user-select:' property):
IE 10+, Opera 15.0+, all other popular browsers
This patch is based on a demo implementation by
Martin Geisler <martin@geisler.net>.
Adds new web command to the core, ``comparison``, which enables colorful
side-by-side change display, which for some might be much easier to work with
than the standard line diff output. The idea how to implement comes from the
SonicHq extension.
The web interface gets a new link to call the comparison functionality. It lets
users configure the amount of context lines around change blocks, or to show
full files - check help (also in this changeset) for details and defaults. The
setting in hgrc can be overridden by adding ``context=<value>`` to the request
query string. The comparison creates addressable lines, so as to enable sharing
links to specific lines, just as standard diff does.
Incorporates updates to all web related styles.
Known limitations:
* the column diff is done against the first parent, just as the standard diff
* this change allows examining diffs for single files only (as I am not sure if
examining the whole changeset in this way would be helpful)
* syntax highlighting of the output changes is not performed (enabling the
highlight extension has no influence on it)
get-with-headers.py took the http GET parameter as a command line parameter
that had to start with '/'. MSYS on windows will mangle such paths.
Instead of applying a workaround everywhere (such as an extra '/') we let
get-with-headers.py add the mandatory '/'. That is consistent with the
url path handling in the Mercurial url class.
A few tests sent 'GET ?cmd=...' which is invalid. They will now send 'GET
/?cmd=...'.
This will not enable any tests for being run on windows - only remove one
reason they were disabled.
Many tests didn't change back from subdirectories at the end of the tests ...
and they don't have to. The missing 'cd ..' could always be added when another
test case is added to the test file.
This change do that tests (99.5%) consistently end up in $TESTDIR where they
started, thus making it simpler to extend them or move them around.
While Chrome, Firefox, and IE 6+ support the current date format being
passed to Date(), Safari doesn't:
> new Date('Mon Oct 24 13:58:01 2011 +0200')
Invalid Date
However, the rfc822date format--officially supported by
ECMAScript[1]--does work:
> new Date('Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:58:01 +0200')
Mon Oct 24 2011 04:58:01 GMT-0700 (PDT)
This change replaces all instances of {date|date} in HTML with
{date|rfc822date}. For elements that only have the "age" class,
there's no outward change for users with JavaScript enabled. For
elements with both the "age" and "date" classes, the full date
displayed uses the new format.
Tested in IE 6, Safari 5.1.1, Google Chrome 15, and Firefox 7.0.1.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/parse
