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quick test
July 10, 2025 by EGO ARTIFEX

I notice Wordland has been updated to 0.5.19. The popup style and link menu is still nonfunctional on safari. I have no idea why the mouse click can not select a style or link. My work around is to use firefox which works without issue. You would think after all this time (20+ years!) that building a web app would be consistent across browsers. There's nothing wrong with the code for this text editor as far as I can tell. Yet the subtle differences still impact web apps using common languages. I mean this is just JavaScript, HTML, CSS. How can it be different browser to browser? I'm sure there's some weird thing Apple is doing with Safari that is unrelated but somehow completely necessary for their purposes. These are little things that make me despair for our future communication. I did some more testing and can make the style bar work in safari but moving the cursor until the selected attribute seems to be highlighted. It's hit or miss though because even bringing the cursor to what appears to be the same exact spot doesn't always work. It's really sad that this simple function is so frustrating. It's a problem I thought was solved decades ago.

Categories: Writing.

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