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Note to moderator: unable to get cursor…for quite some time…
Are others experiencing this..?
It is when I am trying to reply..
We’ve been here so many times before and it’s a known bug.
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11-06-2025/#comment-2035919.
Write it down on a sticky note and stick it on your device.
Oh..!…great..!..thanks for your help..
Utmost apologies for even raising it…
..so..suck it up is your message..eh..?
Unfixable ..
And yr link doesn’t work..
You can suck it up if you wish or you can wait patiently until Lprent has found time to fix it, as he knows about it already because you’ve raised it so many times now. Until then try one of the suggested workarounds in my link that does work (for me).
Time is an ongoing issue. I thought that I'd have more when I sort of retired upon getting super. It actually wound up with much more fragmented time.
A part-time job chews up more time than expected, which is good for the bank balance. But sucks up time in interruptions. Plus there is the blog, emails,
I found that working from home without an office I can close off makes my workday time too fragmented to get block focus time. It is too 'noisy' during the evenings and weekends with a stereo, TV, cat, another person, and various guests and my partners clients in a studio apartment – seldom get more than a couple of consecutive hours.
Plus of course I do a lot of reading which is my preferred off-work-time activity.
This particular problem of the missing cursor on some browsers with the javascript editor on some operating systems requires some very close work and a lot of block time to get through. Probably about a weeks worth, with multiple screens and selection of hardware.
That is because I will need to update the javascript, then test it extensively on linux, windows, mac, android, and iOS. Then on BrowserStack to deal with all of the old gear and odd/old browsers that is around.
Or – more likely – I will just put in a list of what is acceptable configs that are known to work, and the few other people get to use raw html or unconstrained markup (which I'd also have to test for). Can't have people dropping malware into comments with raw and unfiltered html and javascript. Or course I could also just restrict to pure ascii text.
Problem is that the current editor works perfectly for almost everyone. I can make it fault occasionally when testing. But it is really hard to get a consistent error to debug. And even harder when I start to use debuggers to find it. It appears to be an issue with asynchronous events triggering in an odd order.
Basically it will probably happen when I get an office work work in private.
Chrs for the explanation…
Mike Lee…..on urban helipads. And, yep.
Not being from Auckland, I don't know Mike Lee. I have of course looked up somewhat…IMO he has some good previous.
Any local knowledge to inform more? Thanks
Mike Lee is a legend ..had he been mayor for all these years we would have a very different/better city…
He wants a city wide ban…like other cities do…
And like pretty much everything Mike says…it makes perfect sense..
Oh, that was quick ! And yes, he did seem a sense guy. As I say I dont live there…but try to keep abreast of the Big City cousins…
Cheers fr that : )
Not relevant to NZ of course, but I believe it's an example of that same sort of nihilistic attitude that's everywhere now in western societies, best summed up as "if I can't have nice things, then why should anyone else?" – and manifesting in extreme cases as murder-suicides by rejected would-be partners/possessors.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/15/sycamore-gap-why-would-anyone-cut-down-a-tree-that-brought-joy-to-so-many
(If the Graun had facilitated comments on the story, then obviously I'd have posted there instead.)