[pmwiki-users] Bug in Safari

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Sep 29 16:44:07 CDT 2005


On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:26:26AM -1000, Sivakatirswami wrote:
> Platform: Mac OSX, Tiger. 10.4.2
> Browser: Safari: 2.0.1 (412..5)
> PMWiki: 2.0.5
> Skin: GeminiTwo 10
> 
> bug: open wiki page, click "EDIT",  select text, go to GUI buttons,  
> click on GUI button (to make bold, or make heading...whatever..)  
> nothing happens. Well, not exactly, the text is de-selected.  Works  
> fine in FireFox and Netscape on the Mac.

Not only is the text de-selected, but I suspect that ''strong''
is added to the bottom of the text.

It's a limitation of Safari -- AFAICT Safari's version of 
javascript doesn't provide any way to manipulate the text in an 
textarea except to add stuff to the end.

Pm




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