Makes urlize conserve any white space char

[pbu88]

Addresses issue #596.

The fix was rather simpler, I took the same approach that jinja2 urlize uses and is relying on the feature of split with regular expressions: (from docs)

If separator is a regular expression that contains capturing parentheses, then each time separator is matched, the results (including any undefined results) of the capturing parentheses are spliced into the output array. However, not all browsers support this capability.

Hope this helps!

[carljm]

Thanks! Do you have any reference for which browser version(s) support this behavior of split()? I wasn't able to find one on a quick search.

[pbu88]

No I couldn't find any, it's so frustrating that it gives you that warning and let you clueless about which are the ones that don't support it, but my guess is that it should be supported by all modern browsers now a days because is a pretty standard way to use split() across different programming languages and 2nd, is described like that since the ECMAScript 3rd edition (1999) reference.

Do you maybe have a way to run the tests across multiple browsers?

[carljm]

We don't have anything nice and automated set up for cross-browser testing, unfortunately, but I can check a few of the older supported browsers to verify.

[pbu88]

Let me know how can I help you with that :)

[carljm]

If it's part of ES3, I'm pretty sure it's fine. I'll test using Browserstack after I get this merged.

[pbu88]

Cool! Thanks :)