2007-02-24

Firefox Cursor Artifact Intentional (Reblog)

Have other Firefox users noticed, and been confounded and annoyed by, the ` that shows up next to the cursor for certain text fields?

Apparently, this is a directional indicator for web pages that display mixed text, some of which reads left-to-right and some of which reads right-to-left. So, since there is right-to-left text displayed on the main Wikipedia page linked above, that right-facing accent mark appears to show you that the text field is for a left-to-right IME.

As far as I know, there is no way to disable it.

1 comment:

Jeff Carroll said...

Let me know if you do. One day, I spent a few hours searching for the reason and a solution. Like you, I found the cause, but couldn't change the effect.