Several problems and suggestions about HTML report display in GnuCash

[Dancefire]

Hi,

I just filed those issues and suggestions to bugzilla.

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"Request for larger size icon (96x96, 128x128, 256x256) "
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616615

"Automatically append the extension if user forgot append them. "
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616613

"Remember last location of File Open/Save dialog. "
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616612

"Bug in the generated HTML file. "
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616611

"Hardcode HTML in generation script. "
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616610

"Generated HTML file is not conform to HTML standard. "
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616608

"Not all characters in HTML are correctly encoded. "
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616607

"All CJK characters are not shown correctly in HTML report display page. "
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616606
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Thanks everyone.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> Dancefire <dancefire at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Issue 3) Generated HTML file is not conform to HTML standard.
>> You can validate the generated file by http://validator.w3.org/ . It
>> will show several comformation problem.
>
> Some of this is due to GtkHTML.  Hopefully WebKit will be better.
>
>> Issue 4) Hardcode HTML in generation script.
>>
>> I don't think it is a good way to do that. It will strongly limited
>> the way of customize report. There should be a templates, which can be
>> edit by html designer. The software replace several labels in the
>> template to generated report. All style should be controlled by CSS.
>> And no Inline Style should be used. It's better use linked style, and
>> copy the choosen CSS file to the same location of the report.
>>
>> Or, you can generate report in XML format, and use different XLST to
>> generate different style of report.
>>
>> All above methods try to seperate generation and the HTML template,
>> and seperate data and representation.
>
> This should be better in the next major version (2.4) with the inclusion
> of WebKit (which supports CSS) and e-guile (which is an html template
> with embedded guile).  This should allow easier manipulation and style
> sheet control over reports.
>
> The slow part will be migrating reports over to e-guile.
>
> Anyways, I agree with Geert that you should file bug reports on each of
> these items so they don't get lost.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -derek
>
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Tao Wang