141773 - Caret (text cursor) does not blink

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020429
BuildID:    2002042906

The caret doesn't blink at any time.
In the location bar , in mail & news , in IRC , in forms .. it doesn't matter.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. click a textarea .. the location bar is an obvious choice


Actual Results:  The caret was stuck in either the on or the off position.
Usually the on position thankgod , but sometimes in the off (invisible) position
making it hard to type.

Expected Results:  The caret should blink

In text areas other than the location bar the caret is always on.
In the location bar , it appears when you move it with the arrowbuttons and
disappears when you type.

Having a blinking or at least always visible caret is very important so I'm
marking this Severity : Major

I can't believe no one else have noticed this , yet I can't find any other bug
about this problem.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->selection

Comment 2

[saari (gone)]

I see this all over the product at various times, would be good to make this
more robust, although I suspect it is focus code at fault.

Comment 3

[Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen]

I see it all over the product , at ALL times.

Comment 4

[Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen]

I tested further and couldn't find the flaw.
A days later however I noticed that IE had started doing the same thing.
When I checked the cursor settings in windows it indeed was set not to blink.
How it did this I do not know as I certainly didn't set it to this.

I gave it a more sensible setting and the cursor would once again blink in IE.
It did not return in Mozilla however, which puzzled me.

After shutting down my computer and comming back to it , the blinking cursor was
back in Mozilla however , so I might have needed a reboot.

I'm still not quite sure was caused this in the first place but I'm fairly sure
that Mozilla wasn't to blame , so I'm marking this bug invalid.

I do still see focus problems all over the product at various times as 
[e-mail] does , but they are very rare and I cannot reproduce them.
I have'nt tried testing for this with RC3 yet , it's still downloading.