Re: Cut and paste out of/ into text fields in a separate window doesn't work
Re: Cut and paste out of/ into text fields in a separate window doesn't work
- Subject: Re: Cut and paste out of/ into text fields in a separate window doesn't work
- From: Steven Degutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:18:49 -0400
When I say it "isn't a native Cocoa app", I mean to say it doesn't use
standard widgets. Anyone who is experienced with Safari and Finder and other
native Mac apps, and tries out Firefox for Mac for the first time, will
notice almost instantly that Firefox is implementing things on their own.
Yes, there are benefits to writing your own controls, and going this route
has its own merits. For instance, you only need to write a text field once,
and it works on all platforms. But it also has drawbacks, such as *ahem* not
starting out with a working Responder Chain and potentially confusing plugin
authors, and possibly even newer users.
-Steven
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha <
email@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Steven Degutis
> <email@hidden> wrote:
> > In my experience, Firefox (and thus
> > probably other Mozilla apps) isn't even a native Cocoa app, it just
> pretends
> > to be one, so I wouldn't doubt it if it doesn't even *have* a Responder
> > Chain.
>
> I am quite certain that none of the Mozilla apps are Cocoa-native.
> They are all written using the Mozilla Cross-Platform Application
> Framework. There is a book about how to write cross-platform apps
> with that framework.
>
> Any cross-platform framework ultimately has to call through to
> platform-specific APIs, but it's likely that it does so only in a very
> primitive, low-level way.
>
> Firefox plugins *should* be able to handle the clipboard just like any
> other user interface code. But to do so, Firefox would need to
> provide the necessary support. There's no reason it couldn't. Either
> it just doesn't, or it tries to but it is buggy.
>
> Don Quixote
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