On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote:
> 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. > I see. We already have a notion of editable vs. richly editable so we can enable this feature only inside a richly editable area. 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. > We should match whatever the platform norm is. - R. Niwa
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