[QA] VisualEditor, cursors, and new browsers

[Chris McMahon]

Hello QAers,

For some time now we have been experiencing different behavior between
Firefox and Chrome in the VisualEditor with regard to cursor operations:
 RETURN, ARROW_DOWN, ARROW_RIGHT, BACKSPACE, DELETE etc. etc.

In particular, when using arrow keys and such to move around a page such as
http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/User:Selenium_user/cursor_test_page
in
VE, sometimes the first cursor events would not fire; or sometimes the
cursor would not move past the objects in the page; etc.

This week a few things happened that might affect this behavior again:

* We had a change to how VisualEditor does cursors
* Firefox released version 25
* Chrome release version 31 (with specific changes to characters in
contentEditable tags like VE)

So if anyone would like to do some exploratory testing for VE with cursors
on pages in beta labs like the one noted above, and report what you find
here on the list, that would be of interest.

(Note that you'll have to create a user and enable VisualEditor in your
preferences, if you have not already done that.)

Thanks,
-Chris
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