[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

Concrete examples of where something weird happens would be helpful.   
The gap code is obviously not perfect and so there's plenty of room  
for improving it, which will help out Chrome on Mac users even if  
Chrome on Windows goes to a different style of behavior.

dave
(hyatt at apple.com)

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