Sam Khavari

Looks like you can repro this on facebook.com also 1. Login to your facebook.com account on chrome/safari on an ipad 2. Click to update your status 3. Select the microphone...

at minimum the inner-text of the textarea shouldn't be modified. currently text that match in the textarea vanishes.

something like this could be integrated in node-webkit or built into the client app. https://github.com/padolsey/findAndReplaceDOMText

Is there a workaround?

exactly