kaled - 11:54 pm on Aug 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

what Firefox did was decide to not cater to individual likes and dislikes, and put out a fairly lean browser.

I can disable gif animation but not flash from within FF. That is hardly rational. Nor is is related to the platform.

RE: carets
Cross-platform functionality may well be the explanation, however, such code would be located in platform-specific libraries. To use standard carets under Windows would require no more effort than to replace existing functions with null functions (returning true/false as necessary but doing nothing else).
Using standard carets would result in smaller, leaner code.

Kaled.