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Ovid (2709)

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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Monday December 06, 2004

01:44 PM

Broken HMTL text areas on OS X

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HTML text areas on the Mac leave artifacts all over the place and it makes it very difficult to know what I am typing. It's even worse when I hit backspace and it leaves phantom characters. Has anyone else had this problem? This happens with Safari, Firefox and Camino.

Update: I am now typing in IE 5.2 for the Mac and it works fine. There's apparently a common broken widget that the 3 "useful" browsers share. Damn.

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Random data point (Score:1)

by phillup (4419)

I've been using Mozilla for about two years on OSX and have not encounterd the problem you are describing.

I've definitely not heard of it before and I'm pretty sure I would have if it was common.
10.2 problem? (Score:2)

by schwern (1528)

I vaguely remember this being a problem in 10.2. Haven't seen it for a long time. I'm typing this with Firefox 1.0 on OS X 10.3.6 right now. Is your copy of OS X out of date?
- Re:10.2 problem? (Score:2)
  
  by Ovid (2709)
  
  I'm on 10.3.6. (Darn. You had me excited there.)
Works for me... (Score:2)

by brian_d_foy (44)

Curious. I've not seen that behaviour on any browser on any version of Mac OS X, and I've used most of the combinations.
- Re:Works for me... (Score:2)
  
  by Ovid (2709)
  
  It's absolutely killing me. I'm forced to use IE and it's killing me. I just found out that theory didn't wipe the box but instead installed the current version of the top of the previous version. I'm wondering if there is some conflict there.
something else to blame? (Score:2)

by wickline (135)

I'm also 10.3.6 and use mozilla every day. No screen turds in textareas here :/

Is this a relatively stock OS, or has someone installed assorted kernel extensions and whatnot?

-matt