96240 - Email Window Caret over Text

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[gildoron]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010820
BuildID:    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010820

When writing an email,  the Carat (cursor) is over the letter just typed. 
Visually,  its distracting and looks weird.  

Actually,  As I'm writing this,  I just noticed that the same happens here, so
its not just the email module,  but rather ever text box.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start writing an email, type in the letter g (most noticable on my screen)
and look at the flashing cursor. 
2.
3.

Expected Results:  Cursor should flash a few pixels away from the charater just
typed,  not on top of it.

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

Please post a screenshot of the bug.

Comment 2

[Ryan Pertusio]

Attachment: An example of the "cursor" overlap

Comment 3

[Ryan Pertusio]

The screenshot I have just added does show what is happening here.  Sorry for
the poor image quality JPEG, I was unable to save at a lower compression.

Note that this happens in almost any text field.  THe screenshot I have uploaded
shows an example of typing in the "Additional Comments" box for this bug.

I am using build 20010820, and Win2k.  I can confirm this also happens in the
email window too, but it is not limited to email.

An odd thing I noticed.. If you keep typing AFTER the "g" (or any letter for
that matter), and then press your arrow keys or click your mouse after the
letter, it will not 'overlap' as shown.

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

this is an editor issue; and a duplicate bug...

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 6

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.