[webkit-dev] Overtype mode in WebKit for editable content?

[Sergio Villar Senin]

En 12/04/13 19:00, Ryosuke Niwa escribiu:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Sergio Villar Senin <svillar at igalia.com
>     Well, I have a pretty compact patch more or less ready to be uploaded to
>     bz that in the case of the caret being placed at (3) just draws the
>     classical 1px width bar (it also draws the thin bar in the case of being
>     after the last character), so although the replaced character is in any
>     case the 1, the insanity you mention is somehow minimized.
> 
> 
> That doesn't sound right either.  It's much more confusing than not
> setting any width at all because the overtype mode is still on.
> 
> What we need to do is here to use selection.  We need to have
> 1-character long text selection at all time except at the end of each
> line when overtype is on since selection code already deals with the
> said bidi craziness.  Anything short of that isn't landable quality.

Ok, sounds like a very different approach. Just to clarify, do you mean
to skip the caret painting in overtype mode and just use the 1-character
selection as if it were the caret?

BR