On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote:
> Is it expected that overtype works on Windows or on Linux? e.g. If "Edit" > and "RichEdit" window classes both support this feature natively on Windows > (which I bet they do), then the answer is yes. > The non-rich edit control on Windows (i.e. Notepad) does not support overtype mode. The rich edit control (Wordpad) does support it. MS Word also uses a rich edit control, and goes further by displaying an explicit "normal vs. overtype" indicator in its UI. The Chrome omnibox uses a native rich edit control, but in early testing overtype mode always ended up being confusing and annoying, so we disabled it, and we've never had a request to re-enable. I'm not necessarily opposed to plumbing support for overtype mode, but I suspect it may not make sense for all text input controls, e.g. single-line controls; and even if we support it, we may want some mechanism to show the user what mode they're in. Without a visual indicator, it can be surprising and frustrating (which is how it feels to me in Wordpad). PK
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