On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:21 PM, David Hyatt <hy...@apple.com> wrote:
On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:
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?
There are two different effects that interrelate:
* WebKit allows you to select anything on a page. Repro: Go to any
page, start at top, drag down, note that you select everything.
Desired behavior: Only select the text from the page.
You aren't only selecting text on a page though. For example, copying
can be of all the HTML content. This includes tables, images,
plugins, etc. If you don't highlight that content, then you're lying
about what gets copied. The fact that it doesn't show up when you
happen to paste into a plaintext app does not change the fact that the
non-textual content really does get copied if you paste into an app
that supports HTM.
On Mac that's practically everything, so maybe that's the difference
in perception on your part is that on Windows you don't commonly copy/
paste into apps that support HTML? Copy/paste within the same app
while doing rich text editing in Chrome, and you'll see why including
elements other than text in the selection makes sense.
Gaps are distinct from the question of whether or not you're selecting
just text though. However, excluding gaps once you start extending
the selection to cover other types of content leads to a pretty ugly
selection (as can be the case in Firefox).
dave
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