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Display type options are String, Mask, Number, and Date/Time. Mask sounded promising, but after digging for documentation, nope not what I'm looking for.
It's Content type I want, Text or HTML, that's on the Computed Field tab of the properties box, not the Value tab where the JavaScript goes and where the Display type is. And yes my code ended up looking pretty much like yours, thank you :-)
It's almost funny when I look at the things I had tried.
Now, about tables. How do you set a cell to come out as a <th>? How long did it take to get that option in regular Notes, and now I can't find it anywhere again? And how come you get controls for Font, Background, and Margins, but nothing for borders? And how come the All Properties tab of the Properties box disappears with multiple selections? I still have to put a CSS class in one table cell at a time?
Xpages are definitely better result wise, and have possibilities way beyond anything we had before. But for day to day bread and butter stuff, it just hasn't hit me yet how they make *everything* *easier*. It'll take me more than few days to get to the point where I can do the things I've always been able to do in a comparable amount of time never mind quicker, and never mind learning about possibilities to do more. I think for now I'll just go back to 8.0 and stick to the kludges I'm used to. The CSS editor is the only other thing I noticed so far that I will miss. Maybe someday some fancy requirements will come along that make me take another look at this, but for now I have to get things done :-(
I still have motivation, and will try poking around in my own time. I think I'm more dissapointed in my own ability to dive in and get things done than I am with the work that's gone into XPages. The view stuff is fantastic, that will probably be the first thing that I try to squeeze in somewhere. The documentation, well I guess it will mature with time. I think the best thing to focus on with the documentation would be simple "this is how you used to do it, this is how you do it now" stuff as opposed to diving right in to the "could you ever have imagined that you could do this!" stuff that's all over the blogosphere. Great work everyone involved, sorry I'm not up to it.
Feedback response number WEBB7NYUJR created by ~Sigmund Zenkrogenikle on 02/05/2009
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. . . . . . . . . . baby steps (~Sigmund Zenkro... 5.Feb.09) 
