124523 - text drag removes paragraph separations

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[stig hackvan]

highlight a few paragraphs and drag them into a terminal window (gnome-terminal
running 'cat > /dev/null', for instance)

the text will be copied with no paragraph breaks.

(i've also noticed weirdness relating to select/paste -- which usually works
better than select/drag -- losing formatting far more than necessary)

Comment 1

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Asa, can we get rid of this bogus component ("XP Miscellany")?  It's a leftover
from classic.

Can any of my CC: list buddies see that this bug gets assigned well, if it gets
confirmed?  Waterson is on sabbatical and he doesn't do d&d in any case.  Thanks,

/be

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

akkana seems like a good first choice.

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

Is this a serializer issue?

Stig Hackvan--Are you seeing any difference between select-copy-paste and
select-drag-drop?  Or, is this bug that both cases are losing paragraph breaks?
 What is your build-ID?

Comment 4

[Akkana Peck]

I'll echo Kathy's questions, and also ask whether we're specifically talking
about <p> tags getting lost (as opposed to <br><br> or other sequences that look
similar).

Comment 5

[stig hackvan]

Yes, I get different results when I drag-and-drop and when i select-and-paste.

watch what happens with mozilla-0.9.8-0:

------- Additional Comment #2 From Mike Pinkerton 2002-02-11 07:19 -------
akkana seems like a good first choice. ------- Additional Comment #3 From
[e-mail] 2002-02-11 07:24 ------- Is this a serializer issue? Stig
Hackvan--Are you seeing any difference between select-copy-paste and
select-drag-drop?  Or, is this bug that both cases are losing paragraph breaks?
What is your build-ID? 


------- Additional Comment #2 From Mike Pinkerton 2002-02-11 07:19 -------

akkana seems like a good first choice.



------- Additional Comment #3 From [e-mail] 2002-02-11 07:24 -------

Is this a serializer issue?

Stig Hackvan--Are you seeing any difference between select-copy-paste and
select-drag-drop?  Or, is this bug that both cases are losing paragraph breaks?
 What is your build-ID?

Comment 6

[Akkana Peck]

Sounds like there are two problems here.  One, drop and paste should do the same
thing, so someone isn't setting the right document encoder flags in one of those
cases (which is probably pinkerton's area).  But two, the newlines don't seem
right for either mode, which sounds like a serializer issue.

Comment 7

[stig hackvan]

The target application for my test, in case it makes a difference, is the
gnome-terminal that comes with redhat 7.1+updates:  gnome-core-1.4.0.4-38

Comment 8

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

Reporter (stig hackvan), can you still reproduce it on RC1? If not, set the but
to worksforme

Comment 9

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

wfm, as nobody can reproduce it. reopen if you can.