On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM, David Hyatt <hy...@apple.com> wrote:
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.
I've actually been super frustrated with WebKit's selection behavior
for a long time, precisely because it tries to let you select
everything. In Firefox, in most cases* you just select the text out
of a page, which is pretty much always what I want. In Chrome I
find that I'm always managing to select an entire page or entire
table or various other things when I'm just trying to get the text
out of it. Darin (Fisher) has also complained to me about this in
the past
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you just mean it looks visually
confusing, but when you copy/paste you get the right text? Or are you
saying that it's actually selecting the wrong things? The gaps are a
purely visual phenomenon, and they don't affect what gets copied... if
you're seeing the wrong stuff get copied, then that won't be fixed by
a setting to stop painting gaps.
dave
(hy...@apple.com)
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