Bugs in the Apple

textarea wrapping

The ubquitious textarea HTML element, champion of many forms in the web, behaves differently between Safari & Mozilla. The textarea below is defined textarea rows="5" cols="100":

Note it has 100 columns. However in Safari it apparently sets itself to the width of the page and just wraps the text when it reaches the end. Mozilla Firefox, in contrast (and still incorrect in a different way), never wraps the text and just keep extending the width of the textarea.

First Safari with 100 characters pasted in:

Now Mozilla:

CSS and uppercase

Safari interprets the CSS style directive text-transform: uppercase incorrectly. Apostrophized words like martin's are transformed not to Martin's but Martin'S.