{"id":5939,"date":"2009-12-22T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2009-12-22T12:34:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:34:42","slug":"s60-opera-mobile-10-text-entry-bug-and-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/5939\/","title":{"rendered":"S60 Opera Mobile 10 Text Entry Bug and Workarounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Opera<\/p>\n

Ah, the joys of beta software. \u00a0It turns out that the \u00a0Beta 2 “Update<\/em>” \u00a0release of Opera Mobile 10 that I raved about<\/a> last week has a bug that inserts random text in mult-line edit fields. It’s bad enough to make using Web-mail and most online Twitter clients almost impossible.<\/p>\n

The problem occurs as soon as you type text that extends beyond the width of the screen. When Opera wraps the text to the next line it also copies part of what was typed into the new line. With every new line Opera copies more and more text, quickly makeing unreadable gobbledygook of what you are typing. \u00a0The screen shot shows the results of typing “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” \u00a0three times.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, the ability to disable in-line editing and use the phone’s native editor in a separate \u00a0window, which would be a usable workaround, was removed from the Update release.<\/p>\n

Opera has acknowledged the issue<\/a> and I’m sure it will be fixed in the next release. \u00a0I’m not expecting that the fix will available until after the holidays. I certainly don’t want to see the Opera Mobile development and QA staff slaving away while the rest of us are celebrating with our families.<\/p>\n

In the meantime there are a few rather ugly workarounds.<\/p>\n