[webkit-dev] Selection highlight painting ("gaps"?)

[David Hyatt]

On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM, David Hyatt <hyatt at 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
(hyatt at apple.com)

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