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Odd QA Issues in Leopard

Author: Thomas Ingham

Two issues jumped out at me today, one that I thought was just my machine and another that is quite puzzling.

  1. Dropping files on to Mail.app to make a new message creates two windows.
  2. Option-delete no longer works in system-level password fields.

While item 1 is a clear bug in Mail (or the drop service) issue number two is quite disconcerting. If I open Safari and go to one of our CoalEngine sites to log in, one would think that the password field being displayed is just a regular system control. Option delete in these cases works fine however, putting my machine on lockdown and attempting to log back in results in a dialog that contains an input field which, to all appearances looks the same as the html form input; but it will not except option delete as a valid character sequence to “delete to beginning of line.”

This conversation dovetails a bit with the altogether ridiculous behavior of the Cocoa textview option-delete behavior which apparently means “delete to the beginning of the current line and then one word from the previous line.”

Anyone care to bite?

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