[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 7562] Safari does not allow to access (copy) CSS generated content

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7562





--- Comment #11 from Gregg Tavares <gman at google.com>  2011-04-25 09:36:28 PST ---
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css content example

Here's another example. To me at least, Apple being the UX kings, 
this should be a no-brainer. The user sees the content, they should
be able to search for it and select it.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. view the attached page
2. Select all (Ctrl-A or Command-A)
3. Copy
4. Paste into notepad or TextEdit)

What is the expected output? 

You should see 

Chapter 1
bla bla bla bla
Chapter 2
bla bla bla bla
Chapter 3
bla bla bla bla

What do you see instead?

bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla

Similarly try to search for "Chapter"

Note: I understand that the content is in CSS but from the user's point of view they see the words on the screen they expect to be able to search for them, select them and copy and paste them. This comes up in the Khronos specs, especially the WebGL spec.

http://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/

Knowing there are several areas that say "non-normative" a user goes to the page to reference one. They press Ctrl-F or Cmd-F and type "non-norm" and nothing matches even though they see "non-normative" displayed on the page. That's a really bad UX.

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