[webkit-dev] Selection model is broken

[Ojan Vafai]

Sorry, that was too terse, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62664 is
related in that we also should consider making tabindex order depend on
visual ordering.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> Another related bug https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62664.
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> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Benjamin Poulain <benjamin at webkit.org>wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> > Is this too crazy? Are there other solutions?
>>>
>>> I also do not like the selection model but I am unsure about your
>>> suggestion.
>>>
>>> If we use the visual model for selection, finding the order of the
>>> content would get tricky (because the selected content can also be out
>>> of order, or overlapping). Generating the markup for the clipboard
>>> would likely become impossible.
>>>
>>> Has anyone looked into why selections look much better on Mozilla's
>>> engine?
>>
>>
>> People have strong opinions about what is "better." Many people would say
>> WebKit's selections are better in a lot of cases. There are certainly cases
>> we could improve though. A common case people have issue with WebKit
>> selections is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75670.
>>
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