[webkit-dev] On/Off selection gap painting during the text selection

[Ryosuke Niwa]

- R. Niwa

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Gyuyoung Kim <gyuyoung.kim at webkit.org>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I upload a patch to add a preference API in order to enable/disable the
> selection gap painting feature.
>
> Add WKPreference for SelectionPaintingWithoutSelectionGaps
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156900
>
>
> You're able to see what is the selection gap painting in below screenshots.
>
>
> 1. Enable selection gap painting on WebKitGTK+ (Red circles point out the
> selection gaps)
>
>
> ​
> ​
>
> 2. Disable selection gap painting on WebKitGTK+
>
>
> ​
> Almost browsers don't support the selection gap painting when doing text
> selection. So I wonder why WebKit has been doing support this feature so
> far.
>

Selection gap primarily exists to match TextEdit / NSTextView's selection
behavior on Mac.

At last year's contributor's meeting, there was a discussion about revising
that to adopt iOS like block selection in the future once we adopt visual
selection of contents.

- R. Niwa
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