12076 - cannot click in dead space if not horizontal fill

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P2)

Description

[buster]

clicking in dead space in document has no effect.  Clicking in dead space should
establish a selection using these rules, I think:
1) clicking to the left of text should select a whole line
2) clicking to the right of text should collapse the selection to the end of
line

Comment 1

[mjudge]

mostly done except for tables and outside of everthing.

Comment 2

[mjudge]

this is fixed except for the whole line feature.

Comment 3

[mjudge]

this is fixed except for the whole line feature.

Comment 4

[Eli Goldberg]

Hey, Mike ---

This appears fixed throughout the web browser.

However, this does not work from the URL bar (starting from the dead space to the
left of the URL). I swear there was another bug on the topic, but I can't find it
after several searches.

Thus, re-opening for you, in case you happen to know what that bug was, or
whether there wasn't one.

Thanks!

Comment 5

[leger]

elig, we need to know how this is doing with the latest build ASAP please?

Comment 6

[Eli Goldberg]

There's no longer a dead space in the URL bar, so I'm happy to reset this to
FIXED.

[Checked 1999101208 Mozilla & Commercial builds on Mac OS, as well as 1999101208
commercial Win32 build and 1999101108 commercial Linux build.]

Comment 7

[Eli Goldberg]

Oops. Re-opening. I missed a case, which mjudge pointed out.

Specifically, if you click in the URL bar (and have focus in it) and *THEN* click
in the dead space of the URL bar, it should register the click, and place the
caret at the right edge of the URL field. [all platforms, 1999101308 builds]

Comment 8

[rubydoo123]

setting this to M12 and setting status to assigned

Comment 9

[mjudge]

actually that case is fixed now. the only time this will not work is in certain
cases around content that does not "horizontally" fill out the screen.  then you
have a document that is wider than the content needs and there is some funny
frame there that does not get the mouse click.  this WILL have to be fixed
before shipping i think.

Comment 10

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I observed this problem on http://www.mozilla.org/mission.html.

Comment 11

[rubydoo123]

setting to M14, code cleanup needed before beta, updating Summary to reflect the
current issue

Comment 12

[rubydoo123]

removing dogfood & PDT-

Comment 13

[mjudge]

i believe this to be fixed now. I have not found a page with said dead areas
that are not selected. please reverify and if you find anything contact me
personally to let me know how to reproduce. thanks alot

Comment 14

[Eli Goldberg]

buster, are you still seeing this problem? Thanks!

Comment 15

[Eli Goldberg]

Err...I don't think I'm the best person to verify this bug, since I see no reason
why users would deliberately click in dead space, let alone expect any particular
behavior were they to do so. (IE does nothing on Mac OS; on Windows, it does
unpredictable selections.)

I'm rubber-stamping this as Verified, on the basis that selections in dead space
on the page sfraser cites does nothing harmful or massively annoying on today's
builds.

(I'd be happy to verify this thoroughly if anyone can point to a platform UI
specification that details this behavior and rationale behind it, or explain it
otherwise.)

Comment 16

[buster]

changing component to editor.  this isn't a browser behavior issue, it's an
editor behavior issue.  changing qa contact to sujay.  Sujay, you should verify
this in the editor.

Comment 17

[buster]

reopened so sujay will verify, leaving as fixed.

Comment 18

[leger]

If this is fixed, it should be Resolved/Fixed - marking as so.  sujay to mark
Verified/Fixed if all its cool.

Comment 19

[sujay]

verified in 1/18 build.