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.
Random data point
phillup on 2004-12-06T21:24:29
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?
schwern on 2004-12-06T23:37:54
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 Is your copy of OS X out of date?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?
Ovid on 2004-12-07T00:07:11
I'm on 10.3.6. (Darn. You had me excited there.)
Works for me...
brian_d_foy on 2004-12-07T02:31:48
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...
Ovid on 2004-12-07T02:59:43
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?
wickline on 2004-12-07T02:43:33
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
