Sunday, 6 January 2013

Re: NetSurf text area editing crashes

On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 03:26 +0000, Bryan Hogan wrote:
> The problem with NetSurf crashing when editing text boxes has been
> around for several years:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2943862%20&group_id=51719&atid=464312
>
> (and several other entries in the bug tracker)
>
> Is it specific to NetSurf on RISC OS or does it affect all
> versions? Is it being actively looked into?

There are many issues with text entry on all platforms, and the code is
simply unmaintainable right now. It is waiting for someone to have time
to completely replace the existing implementation. Don't expect this to
happen soon.


J.

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