On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Ben Goodger wrote:
I agree. I would like to retain this mode of selection in Windows
Chrome at least. I think it's only ragged in most apps because people
don't take the time to make it look nice.
-Ben
Yeah, when it comes to complex Web page selection, I don't think there
really is a platform precedent. It really comes down to "How much
effort did the browser put into their selection code?" and typically
the answer is "Not that much."
I can get how editing in text fields you might feel a desire to match
the platform (where ragged selection may be the convention), but once
you get into rich text selection (images, floats, tables, columns,
etc.), there really is no platform precedent. Other browsers just
kind of lazily include a few more objects like images and call it a
day. We tried to do better than that.
dave
(hy...@apple.com)
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