Hello: The problem with lagging response in TextAreas has been an on going one. The issue is complicated and has something to do with Camino's mixed heritage. Its Frontened is cocoas but its rendering engine is mozilla's. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, and I probably am, but why not more Cocoa? > Mmmmm :)
Yes, I believe that the developers (I'm not one of them) would like to use cocoa here because it would also give camino access to OS X 's spell checker. A while back there was a continuing issue with some websites (yahoo was one of them) initiating complete crash of Camino.It was traced back to something in cocoa and the work around for it was to go back to using QuickDraw to render. I'm not sure where we stand with running Quartz instead of QuickDraw. It doesn't end there though. There is a suspicsion also that running animations anywhere (even ones hidden behind another window or in a hidden tab) are causing part of this problem. I think those animations continue to run even while not visible. The question also arises whether the problem has anything at all to do with Camino code at all. Is it something in the OS itself,? That would make it an Apple problem. I have noticed another thing. The problem is definitely worse the longer the browser has been open. Is that because the longer the browser is open the more pages the user has open? Closing pages that are not in use and hidden seems to help, but not completely alleviates the problem. I have been wanting to bring this up again, but I can't find a situation which I can reproduce. So i have been watching for a set of circumstances in which I can guarantee that this problem will occur. That would give the developers a chance to figure out what was going on. > >> I'm getting similar behaviour, I'm actually wondering if it's > >> anything to do with animated gif's. Both Safari and Camino seem to > >> really hit the CPU hard when there's these types of images on As I said above, these are prime suspects. This has also brought up the possibility of looking for a way to disable flash animations while they are hidden (some have even suggested that Flash no longer be supported in web browsers). I think animated gif's do not run while not visible. Flash runs continually I believe (someone correct me if I"m wrong ) > >> screen which makes posting to post forums troublesome. I came > >> close to filing a bug on it but as I was seeing similar behaviour > >> in Safari Yes, this is also under consideration. I am typing this at the present moment in the textarea and having no problems. but I have nothing else running except TextEdit. I and I just woke my iBook from sleep and continued with reading email after being away from the computer for several hours. Only one other tab is open to a page contains only on still image and some text. It seems far easier to come up with scenarios in which i have not problems with working in textareas than it is to find scenarios where the text area is reproducible. How do you file a bug for something like this? One other questions for thte list. I'm still running Panther, so I don't know if this problem is still present in Tiger. Has anyone running Tiger had this problem? Or is it now only a pre-Tiger problem. As I type this I notice anohter small coosmetic thing with textareas in Gmail specifically, I have multiple scross bare on my texterea while I type a replay. Resizing the window doesn't make it go away. Resizing the window only makes teh malformed vertical scroll bar protude down to the edge of the open window. Anyone else seen this problem? This problem is the only one that keeps me from saying that Camino is THE best Mac OS X brower hands down. -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music" Sergei Rachmaninov _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
