On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Stuart Morgan
<stuartmor...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Dean McNamee<de...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> Note: Firefox on OSX selects all on single click. So there isn't a
>> clear answer on OSX either.
>
> Firefox has historically tended to favor "do what Firefox does on
> other platforms" over "follow the platform standard". In other cases,
> it does the wrong thing on the Mac simply because the behavior was
> written on Windows as cross-platform code and nobody has gotten around
> to fixing it for the Mac yet--text editing in particular has many
> examples of this.
>
> "Firefox does it differently" should never be an argument that
> something isn't an established standard on the Mac.
My argument was just that I know of only 2 frequently used URL bars in
browser. Safari, and Firefox. They differ in their behavior. I
don't know how you have an established standard when you only have a
few reference points, and one of the major ones doesn't follow it.
How/where is it standardized?
>
> -Stuart
>
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