Safari Desktop: When aborting a soft-keyboard-driven IME, the new selection is not set
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Description
See this reproduction:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8c0638b1-14ee-4713-9456-0ee66e35ffff
However, when you abort a dead-key-driven IME, it works. E.g. pressing ^ and then clicking somewhere else, it works fine.
Seems to be a general issue when using Safari and composition via the virtual keyboard, I guess related to window focus management on OSX. This problem does not exist in Chrome and Firefox though.
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Research direction
Start with the linked reproduction and compare the abort behavior for soft-keyboard-driven and dead-key-driven IME composition in Safari. Reproduce the issue on Safari desktop, then compare Chrome and Firefox as described; done means the new selection is set after aborting the soft-keyboard composition without regressing dead-key behavior.
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Assessment
- Domain
- frontend, internationalization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100