[Mozile] RE: 0.8: nesting contentEditable = "false"

[Short, Tom]

This is probably a dumb question, but is it possible to generate our own
blinking caret? It can even be the old-style Emacs like block cursor. If
we can get the currently selected character, couldn't we just keep
swapping the foreground and background colors once or twice a second?

- Tom

  
-----Original Message-----
From: mozile-bounces at mozdev.org [mailto:mozile-bounces at mozdev.org] On
Behalf Of James A. Overton
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:03 AM
To: Mozile
Subject: Re: [Mozile] RE: 0.8: nesting contentEditable = "false"

On 2006-Jun-07, at 9:50 PM, Short, Tom wrote:
> A more general problem seems to occur with input sections under 
> Firefox and Mozile 0.8. It may have something to do with designMode. 
> User input boxes are not easily selected in a noneditable section 
> (whether nested or not).

	Yeah, this is a known Mozilla bug caused by designMode. The
reason designMode is being used is that it causes a cursor to be
displayed.  
I don't know of any way around this problem. It affects input boxes
anywhere in the page, and a page reload doesn't seem to help.
	This isn't the only annoyance that designMode causes. There are
plenty of operations like table manipulation, image resizing, and drag
and drop which Mozile doesn't handle (at least not yet) but which
designMode allows. This breaks Mozile's undo/redo system. I've also
noticed bugs which are probably caused by designMode, such as freezing
the tab system and locking the browser's buttons.
	The other way to display the cursor is to turn on "Caret
Browsing", but that requires privileges. An extension can do it
automatically (but it requires installation), or the user can press F7
(which then has to be turned off).
	We'll have to decide which is the lesser annoyance. I'd
appreciate hearing opinions on the matter.

James


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