Indeed, this is awesome to see! Thanks for doing this. On May 14, 2015 4:20 PM, "James Willcox" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is seriously great work. Thanks Mark! > > James > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Mark Capella <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Tonight we'll be moving implementation of the Gecko TouchCarets, >> initially built as part of FF/OS, that will be replacing our current Java >> Text Selection UI to m-c. (bug 988143). >> >> It will be available behind two prefs : |touchcaret.enabled| and >> |selectioncaret.enabled|, to allow easy switching between the two versions. >> The prefs work together as a pair, so enable / disable them as such. >> >> We hope to find early adopters to check it out and file bugs, >> suggestions, etc. It's been in dogfooding for awhile and stable, but if you >> do spot something, you can file against the Firefox for Android / Text >> Selection component. I expect a subset of any issues identified may be more >> appropriately moved to Core / Selection if they involve placement or >> manipulation of the UI components, but we'll work that out. >> >> While the Carets change from angular to rounded and from orange to blue, >> you shouldn't see any difference in the interaction of the handles and our >> native Selection Actionbar. The handle positioning, becoming inherent to >> platform, reduces a lot of our complexity. >> >> If you have a "favorite" outstanding issue with the current >> implementation, you may find it solved by the basic new version. I recently >> checked through the issue backlog and found several instances where we gain >> a solution upfront. >> >> That's it for now, -- mark >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mobile-firefox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > >
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