The textarea is to accept input, presumably. It's a trick often used in a normal browser HTML page, too. You get focus, keypresses, copy/paste, etc. via the nat

The textarea is to accept input, presumably. It's a trick often used in a normal browser HTML page, too. You get focus, keypresses, copy/paste, etc. via the native browser UI. It's a shame that HTML doesn't provide something similar, but as a hack it's not too bad.