Re: [orca-list] Why orca is double echoing some content in firefox?

[Trevor Saunders <trev saunders gmail com>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:25:17PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br> wrote:
>  
> > Save the html in a file, open the file with firefox and try navigate
> > using up and down. Note that the word Brasil and the word France are
> > read twice by orca.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
>
> No, probably not.
>
> I once looked at the code used by Orca to handle caret navigation in Firefox
> (i.e., Gecko), and it was very complex due to limitations on the Mozilla side.
> I am sure it can be and will be improved, but it's impressive that it works as
> well as it does.

 I suspect atleast some of the complexity comes from working around
 stuff that nolonger needs to be worked around, but that code is so
 complicated and confusing that I atleast can't tell what is or isn't
 needed.

 Trev

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