Problems with "location field text area" in Android

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Load main WebAnywhere "Beta" page into Android Firefox (17.0) or Dolphin 
Beta (1.2.0 as of 121221)
2. Try to enter a target URL replacing the default page
3.


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Any time I tap in the field to the right of the "Go" button, I get the 
on-screen keyboard and can enter text or paste a URL, but apparently that is a 
search on page field. "1356122709504 Uiyu not found - Dolphin.png" shows what 
happens if I paste a URL into the search box and tap "Go". 

In the "location field text area" to the left of "Go", a tap causes the voice 
to say "location field text area", but rarely produces a cursor or keyboard. 
Once when I tapped there for the first time in freshly loaded Firefox, I did 
get a keyboard, and was able to enter text, but when I tapped "Go" it turned 
into the same garbled accented chars I usually get. 

I can always long-press for copy/paste, and I can paste my chosen URL, but it 
is inserted into the middle of what is already there. I can't find any way to 
delete the existing URL (except for the one time I actually got a keyboard). 

Whatever is in the location field, it typically ends up as high-ASCII accented 
characters when I tap "Go". Frequently the four accented Uiyu chars are all 
that show, but sometimes many more high-ASCII chars appear, sometimes around my 
pasted URL which stays readable. 

I'm attaching several screenshots showing my struggles. Some include error line 
numbers and formal error reports. 

Also a view of the site I was testing with, 
<http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/time-to-be-ashamed/article4214334.ece
> which you will see pasted into the middle of your own URL - just to show it 
works. 

There is also a strange event where Firefox once said "WebAnywhere ... contains 
plugin content..." That was lurking under the page full of error messages. I 
hadn't seen it before or since. 


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Your "Beta" version, on Android 2.3.5. 


Please provide any additional information below.

I tried both the default "MultiTouch" keyboard and my favorite MessagEase 
Keyboard. I don't think there was any significant difference. Firefox seemed to 
get farther than Dolphin does, but I tried it more times...  

I'm thinking several separate problems:

Tapping the "location field text area" is recognized, but not as a request for 
text entry.

Tapping "Go" often changes the "location field text area" to "Uiyu" or other 
combination of high-ASCII chars. 

Pasting into the "location field text area" should replace whatever is already 
there, or at least offer to. 

Better would be a way to interact with the Android "share page" mechanism, or a 
way to be an "open with" target, but I'm not sure how you would do either. 

I'm not (seriously) visually impaired, I'm just trying to find a way to have 
web pages read to me while I do manual chores. Typically I get URLs in links on 
Twitter, where I have to open them in a browser, copy them, and hopefully paste 
them into WebAnywhere. The only other semi-working alternative I've found for 
Android is WebPageReader, but your phrasing and accenting is better. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by LorenAme...@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2012 at 4:37

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• [1356122709504 Uiyu not found - Dolphin.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/webanywhere/issue-60/comment-0/1356122709504 Uiyu not found - Dolphin.png)
• [1356123636339 paste into Uiyu+ errors top.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/webanywhere/issue-60/comment-0/1356123636339 paste into Uiyu+ errors top.png)
• [1356123697224 paste into Uiyu+ errors mid.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/webanywhere/issue-60/comment-0/1356123697224 paste into Uiyu+ errors mid.png)
• [1356123717347 paste into Uiyu+ errors bottom.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/webanywhere/issue-60/comment-0/1356123717347 paste into Uiyu+ errors bottom.png)
• [1356123810038 'plugin content' under errors.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/webanywhere/issue-60/comment-0/1356123810038 'plugin content' under errors.png)
• [1356123931778 'page not found' non jumbled paste in middle.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/webanywhere/issue-60/comment-0/1356123931778 'page not found' non jumbled paste in middle.png)
• [1356124051819 the target site really does work - Dolphin.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/webanywhere/issue-60/comment-0/1356124051819 the target site really does work - Dolphin.png)