[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 25620] REGRESSION (r43007): In MobileMe Calendar, New Event text is displayed offset when it's first created

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25620





------- Comment #9 from ojan at chromium.org  2009-05-07 17:18 PDT -------
The bulk of r43007 was to change the interpretation of size/cols on
inputs/textareas. This was inspired by our QA running into a number of top
sites (by number of pageviews) that woud layout incorrectly in WebKit due to
the widths of text controls not matching IE (e.g. an input that was too large
would cause things to wrap and make a site look surprisingly broken).

I'm pretty sure that, for text controls that have an explicit CSS width, the
only differences in metrics from r43007 is the amount of padding on textareas
and that the padding can be removed via CSS. If I understand correctly, the
latter should enable MobileMe to not need to hard-code to webkit metrics.

I don't know how to prove this, but I expect that, of sites that actually use
size/cols instead of CSS width, there are considerably more sites that depend
on IE metrics here than WebKit metrics.

The CSS changes in r43007 were to match IE, but, as I told hyatt/mitz, I'm OK
with r43355 as it makes form controls look better in general and the majority,
if not all, of the compatibility win is from treating size/cols differently.


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