On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Michael Layzell <mich...@thelayzells.com> wrote:
> Summary: We currently require webpages to poll the current selection when > they want to be > notified of changes to the user's selection.This patch adds two events, > selectstart and > selectionchange, which allow the website to detect when the selection is > changed. selectstart > is fired when the user starts selecting, and selectionchange is fired when > the selection > changes for any reason. > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571294 > > Link to standard:http://w3c.github.io/selection-api/#user-interactions > > Platform coverage:All platforms. > > Target release: Firefox 43. > > Preference behind which this will be implemented: > "dom.select_events.enabled" > > DevTools bug: N/A > Listeners for these new events should be visible in the inspector [1] and debugger [2] and the user should be able to break on them. I don't expect any devtools changes will be needed to make this work, but I'm mentioning it in order to be tested and verified. Thanks, Panos [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector/How_to/Examine_event_listeners [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_to/Break_on_a_DOM_event _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
