[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 8053] New: REGRESSION: Copy Link pastes link text rather than URL into rich text views

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http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8053

           Summary: REGRESSION: Copy Link pastes link text rather than URL
                    into rich text views
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 417.x
          Platform: Macintosh
               URL: http://www.apple.com
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: New Bugs
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at opendarwin.org
        ReportedBy: jgjohnso at wisc.edu


Steps to Reproduce:
(1) Open http://www.apple.com in Safari.
(2) Control-click on 1-800-MY-APPLE.
(3) Select "Copy Link".
(4) Open a rich text document in TextEdit.
(5) Type command-v to paste.

Expected results:
The pasted text is http://www.apple.com/store/.

Actual results:
The pasted text is 1-800-MY-APPLE.

Regression:
I'm using OS X 10.4.5 will all the latest security updates installed.  The bug
does not occur in OS X 10.3.9.  I believe that the bug did not occur in earlier
versions of OS X 10.4, but I don't know when exactly it was introduced.

The bug occurs with any URL; I just used Apple's web site as an example.  On
the copying side, I've been able to reproduce the bug in a number of Webkit
apps: Safari, Help Viewer, Vienna (RSS reader:
http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.html), and TCOBrowser (TeX online
catalog browser: http://tcobrowser.sourceforge.net/).  On the pasting side,
I've been able to reproduce the bug in TextEdit and Stickies.  I discovered the
bug when trying to paste a link into the description field of Apple's crash
reporter after a Safari crash.  Strangely, I haven't been able to reproduce the
bug in Mail, not even with a new message set to rich text.

The bug is particularly evident in TextEdit, because with the same clipboard
contents and the same document it will paste either the link text or the URL,
depending on whether the document is set to rich text or plain text.


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