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

[Darin Fisher]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> I think there is a good use case for copying a selection of HTML from any
>> web page and pasting that into the rich text editor of a web mail program.
>>
>
> I agree, but that case does not degrade badly when you only copy the text,
> whereas if there is any case where you _don't_ want to copy the images etc.,
> the current behavior makes those use cases impossible.
>
> Note that within Chrome we put in ctrl-shift-v to "paste as plain text"
> precisely because of issues like this.  Most other programs don't have that
> option though (and even in Chrome it's hard to discover).
>
>
Yeah, I frequently see the Code Definition window in Visual Studio ;-)

-Darin
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