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 > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---