Subject: bug#67029: 29.1; EWW mode text entry literally unusable on Brutaldon

From: Csepp <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:04:36 +0100

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> Csepp <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Haven't gotten around to it yet, sorry.  The specific case is only
>> slightly tricky, but the general case (can't enter text longer than box)
>> seems to be a universal issue across every system I've tried.
>> A hopefully simple fix would be to just do what w3m does and open a
>> separate buffer.
>
> Thanks, please let us know when you make any progress.
>
> It would be great to have an example web page.  EWW can handle file://
> URLs so you could simply send an HTML file that exhibits the problem.

Okay, so this textarea example from MDN reproduces it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form>
<textarea id="w3review" name="w3review" rows="4" cols="50">
</form>
</body>
</html>