102259 - the 'Home' and 'end' key are not working within the <input type=text> form control

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 73828

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[Madhur Bhatia]

in Mac OS 10 -- build ID: 2001-09-28-04-0.9.4

1. go to the above mentioned url
2. type something long in the text box.
3. with the cursor placed after the last letter, hit the 'home' key

actual:
the focus comes to the beginning of the sentence, but there is no 
blinking cursor. If I hit the left arrow key, i notice that the cursor is still 
at it's last position. 

4. Now, bring the  cursor to the beginning of the sentence
5. hit the 'end' key

actual: 
Nothing happens. The cursor + the focus stays put at the beginning of the 
sentence.

This is happening only in MacOS 10. I still have to test if it occurs in MacOS 
9.1.
Not happening in other platforms.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

->>

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

over to kin

Comment 3

[kinmoz]

Cc'ing some mac folks ... any of you guys seeing this problem on OSX?

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

duplicate

from the OSX Human Interface Guidelines (if in a hurry, just read the last
sentence of this entry):  

Quoted from:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGUserInput/The_Functio_ecific_Keys.html

Pressing the Home key is equivalent to moving the scrollers all the way to the
top and to the left. In a text document, for example, pressing Home scrolls to
the beginning of the document; in a spreadsheet, it may scroll to the beginning
of the spreadsheet or to the beginning of a row.

End is the opposite of Home: It scrolls to the end of a document.

If the beginning or end of the document is already reached, pressing Home or End
produces a system alert sound. Pressing the Home or End key has no effect on the
location of the insertion point or selected data.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73828 ***

Comment 5

[Madhur Bhatia]

Verified dup of bug 73828