[whatwg] Textarea wrap=off

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Aryeh Gregor<Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can't load the full spec - it locks my browser - and I can't find
>> any relevant text at
>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#the-textarea-element.
>>  Is there some other place I should be looking in the multipage spec?
>
> It's 11.4.15, "Rendering", since it's a rendering hint and not a valid
> textarea attribute:
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html#the-textarea-element-0

Awesome, thanks guys.  That was non-obvious to me.

> Firefox doesn't seem to load the single-page version acceptably for
> me.  Chrome is fairly slow -- especially if I accidentally do
> something that triggers reload of the page -- but mostly usable.  If I
> want something that's really responsive, I resort to wget | less --
> and searching through the whole text for a string once it's loaded
> into memory still takes a large fraction of a second.

Yeah, FF is the one I'm having trouble with.  I can get it to *barely*
load, but then I see 1-2 second delays in scrolling.

Of course, I'm stuck on 3.0.12 since 3.5 auto-crashes on load on my
work computer.  ;_;

~TJ