Better text field control

Masterd · February 01, 2011, 06:47:24 AM

I recently migrated from Google Chrome to Firefox and one thing that I'm really missing is WebKit's text field control system. Gecko dosen't how such feature, so it will be nice to improve the SMF's buil-in text field control system. What do you think about that?

Arantor · February 01, 2011, 07:00:25 AM

Then use the FF add-on for it.

Masterd · February 01, 2011, 07:03:46 AM

Okay, but this really should be improved.

Arantor · February 01, 2011, 07:17:10 AM

There really aren't that many places that use a textarea where you really need the capacity to expand it - the most obvious is quick reply, in fact the others are almost not worth worrying about so much.

Consider that every one you want to add will require complex Javascript (which is currently buggy anyway). Where do you think it needs to be done, exactly?

Antechinus · February 01, 2011, 12:48:47 PM

If you are referring to the ability to expand a textarea then I suggest you install Firefox 4, which is quite stable enough for general use IMO (I've been using it for some time). It includes this feature as standard.

Of course now the Opera and IE users will grumble, but they can grumble at Opera and MS.

Masterd · February 01, 2011, 02:54:47 PM

Quote from: Antechinus on February 01, 2011, 12:48:47 PM
Of course now the Opera and IE users will grumble, but they can grumble at Opera and MS.

I was thinking about those users, too. I'm useing Firefox 3.6.13 only because some add-ons compatibility.

Antechinus · February 01, 2011, 04:30:58 PM

This really is legacy code IMHO. I mean the textarea resize in 2.0. I'm dubious as to whether it should even have been included, given that new browsers are being built with this functionality anyway. I'd expect we would drop all resize code from 2.1 and let the browsers handle it. Since WebKit and Gecko have it already I expect Opera wont be far behind. IE9 might have it (not sure).

Arantor · February 02, 2011, 06:54:08 AM

If it stays you should fix it seeing how it's kind of broken in IE7 and IE8 at the moment, it has a tendency to jump around a bit...

Masterd · February 18, 2011, 04:47:07 PM

* Masterd is bumping this topic.

Antechinus · February 18, 2011, 05:10:20 PM

* Antechinus bumps it back down the other way. Legacy code. meh.

Masterd · February 19, 2011, 07:47:15 AM

So, what will happen with this?

Arantor · February 19, 2011, 07:50:13 AM

The above is pretty much a statement from the devs that they don't want to add it any further in later versions, so at best they'll fix any bugs in 2.0 and drop it thereafter...

Antechinus · February 19, 2011, 06:05:13 PM

What he said.

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