Co-mingling Flex and HTML

I have a pretty robust Flex application that I am working on
and I have some Help documentation that is static HTML. I am using
the TabNavigator as my navigation and one of the tabs is this help
documentation. I have a couple of questions now:
1. Can a tab navigator load an HTML page?
2. Is there an eay way to render HTML on a Flex page?
3. What if I had a little dynamic content that was date
specific but my page was largely static text, what would be the
best approach for this page?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!!!

i've use the htmlText property of TextArea to some effect.
there are SERIOUS limitations. for example, it's best if you
specify height and width for all your images so that the layout
happens as you expect. it also helps to set the condenseWhiteSpace
property to true.
for my wife's site, i have very static html that i render,
and for the most part it works ok. one thing i hate is that an
image can't be the first thing in the text. dunno why, but i've not
gotten that to work.
my wife's site is:
http://www.frozenfield.net -
to see an example, go to the Field Journal or the Profiles.
there was a guy who wrote an html component that he used to
charge for. i think he's a little disgruntled now because he was
trying to build a small business out it and then adobe came out
with AIR - not sure if you can still get it. but AIR still doesn't
deal with a fully net-deployed situation. so i think there is still
some need for such a component.
./paul

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Hi Abhishek,
Nice conversation I do not expect that TLF covers the full HTML standard. After all, browsers are too good when it comes to HTML rendering...
with varying degrees of fidelity.
I remember reading in the TLF forum, that HTML import/export was experimental. That's why I wrote that HTML is not ready for prime time. Also your comment shows that HTML is a poor choice from a Flex perspective. Unfortunately, it's unclear what varying degrees of fidelity really means as I'm not aware of any precise documentation or code.
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abhishek.g wrote: Hi Marc,
Thanks for your reply.
TLF supports many different markup formats (TLF, FXG, Plain text, HTML) with varying degrees of fidelity. It would simply not do to compare HTML because there isn't a 1:1 correspondence between TLF and HTML capabilities. From that perspective, TLF format would be your best bet though I realize there is the problem of inconsistent attribute order.
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As for HTML import/export, it is obviously be beyond TLF's scope to implement the full HTML standard. The current implementation is loosely based on the HTML capabilities of flash.text.TextField (see htmlText property), which itself is a small subset of the standard, and deviates from it in some ways. When you say HTML support is not ready for prime time, are you referring to this limited scope, or have you encountered specific bugs in the implementation? If the former, I'd like to know what your expectations are. If the latter, please report them.
Thanks
Abhishek
(Adobe Systems Inc.)
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