117176 - Nothing in Page Contents Selectable on XUL FTP Listing

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Felix Miata]

2001122719

Go to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/ and find that
nothing on page is selectable for cut & paste.

I belive this started when FTP page listings were chromed a couple of weeks or
so ago.

See also bug 117175.

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Confirming on Windows - not OS/2 specific

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103827 ***

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

This bug has nothing to do with a right click menu, not a dupe of bug 103827.

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

You're meant to click on it once, then use the context menu. that doesn't work
because of bug 103827, though. You can't select part of a link, which is Yet
Another reason why the html mode is preferred.

The XUL viewer isn't used by default though - turning it on was an accidental
checkin dougt made.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103827 ***

Comment 5

[Felix Miata]

Bug 103827 is about a right click menu function not working as designed.

This bug is distinguishable in that its focus is on the fact that the mouse
cannot select any page content to copy to clipboard. On any normal HTML page,
any or all of the page can be selected and copied to the clipboard, such as when
the need to save the page content as a text file (because bug 70045 hasn't been
fixed) arises. This bug is not a dupe of bug 103827.

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

This is xul only. removing nsbeta1, since the xul dirviewer was only enabled by
accident.

Marking dependancy, because the bugs are related, and a fix for one could
probably trivally fix the other.

->moz1.1, since its xul only

Comment 7

[Felix Miata]

2002022716 OS/2

This behavior also applies on some http pages - e.g.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124205 and this page. Right now if I
try to select any previous submissions on this bug to copy and paste for quoting
into the additional comments form window, nothing happens when swiping the mouse
pointer over the desired text.

Comment 8

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I'm not sure what you mean by previous submissions, but that is definately not
this bug. this bug only affects directiory listings using the tree-style view

Comment 9

[Felix Miata]

previous submissions=additional comments previous to current additional comment

What is a tree style view? I made no mention of any such thing when I submitted
this bug originally December 28th.

A web page containing text controlled via preferences, whether an FTP listing or
anything else, should not be ignoring the swipe of the mouse pointer. Standard
text fonts, as opposed to chrome fonts or graphics, should always be available
to copy to the clipboard, and this is what this bug is really about.

Comment 10

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

xul dirviewer bugs -> 1.2. I have no time..

Comment 11

[benc]

don't argue w/ bbaetz on this, he's the dir-master :)

If you got little triangles for directories, you are in XUL/tree/dir view, (we
have no official name). 

If you see files presented as links (underlined), then that is HTML view. At the
time of your submission, I think tree/dir was the default.

If you are broken in HTML view as of 1.0, please create a new bug, b/c this bug
is officially hijacked.

Comment 12

[Felix Miata]

Works fine in HTML. Still broken in XUL.

Comment 13

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I have no time to work on mozilla at the moment, so dougt is taking over FTP

open ftp bugs -> him

Comment 14

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

xulviewer

Comment 15

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 16

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420