[Love Calm Quiet]

I watch the posts related to Safari pretty regularly and haven't seen this mention, but I find that for some web pages, a copy and paste of text off the page doesn't work right in Safari: it drops letters unpredictably. I don't always see it, I think pulling a paragraph out of the New Yorker site was the first place - and it seems usually to apply. I can open the page in Explorer 5.2 and I can drag over the text, command-C and get the whole thing.

Try it yourself, on the following page: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/-
Select the first paragraph and note the dropped letters here and there.
I thought maybe small font size was the problem, so I enlarged the font. That only changed WHICH characters got dropped.

Is this a known bug? Can you replicate it? I think it's a serious problem because it diminishes Safari's usefulness for on-line researchers who need to copy and paste quotes into another file (as I often do). This certainly prevents me from working in an IE-free mode

PS: I even tried Command-A to select the whole page. When I pasted it into a TextEdit file, the same letters were missing (plus more throughout the page). Explanations? Workarounds?

[Chuckit]

Strange. It doesn't seem to happen in 10.2's Safari. This seems to be a new bug.

[symonsl]

It appears to be then last letter in each line of the original:

"The folksinger Arlo Guthrie likes to tell story about his father, the legendary Wood Guthrie, who died in 1967, at the age of fifty-five. When he was a toddler, Arlo says Guthrie gave him a Gibson acoustic guitar fo his birthday. Several years later, when the bo was old enough to hold it, Guthrie sat hi down in the back yard of their house—the lived in Howard Beach, Queens—and taugh him all the words to “This Land Is You Land,” a song that most people likely thin they know in full. The lyrics had been writte in anger, as a response to Irving Berlin’s “Go Bless America,” which Woody Guthri deplored as treacle. In addition to the familia stanzas (“As I went walking that ribbon o highway,” and so on), Guthrie had composed couple of others, including this"

"Go Bless America" is sort of funny.

[Arty]

I've noticed this too... but only at the New Yorker site!

Maybe it's something funny/bad at their end?

[Love Calm Quiet]

I'm thinking it may be font-specific? The *^&%$% site will not allow my default default font of Vendana and insists on displaying most text in Times. That may be why only some sites exhibit the phenomenon. Nevertheless, Safari ought to be able to cope with Times :/