1159795 - can't copy initially selected text in navigationbar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Browser, defect)

Description

[André Fiedler]

Modell: mako
Software: Boot2Gecko 3.0.0.0-prerelease
Plattform-Version: 40.0a1
Github Commit: c6b04efa (2015-04-17 21:10:53)
Build: https://yalam.co.uk/b2g/mako/fxos-mako-15-04-18.zip

If I open a URL in the browser and than tap on the navigationbar / rocketbar the text is initialliy selected but there's no context menu to copy/cut it. You have first to re-select the URL/Text so that the menu does appear.

The copy&paste menu should appear initially. If you start to write a new URL it should disappear.

Comment 1

[Gregor Wagner [:gwagner]]

Ben, can you take a look?

Comment 2

[Ben Francis [:benfrancis]]

Looking...

Comment 3

[Ben Francis [:benfrancis]]

Rocketbar uses the setSelectionRange() method on an input element to select the text in the direction specified in the UX spec, my guess is that the text selection handles don't get triggered by this.

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/system/js/rocketbar.js#L445

George, do you know whether this should be supported?

Comment 4

[(Inactive after June) George Duan [:gduan] [:喬智]]

As I know, the only way to launch copypaste bubble is to call div.selectAllChildren.

see below,
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/sms/views/conversation/js/conversation.js#L3066

Comment 5

[Ben Francis [:benfrancis]]

Hi George,

I don't think that would work for this use case because it needs to set the direction of the text selection (i.e. it selects from the end of the URL to the start of the URL so that the end of the URL is shown).

As setSelectionRange() is a web standard, should we look at supporting that in our text selection feature?

Comment 6

[(Inactive after June) George Duan [:gduan] [:喬智]]

Agree, I think, if there's a selection either from finger or code that turn the characters to blue, should launch copy-paste bubble.

seeking advices from Gecko's guy.

Hi Morris,
What do you think?

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on