Closed Bug 12551 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Tracking bug for annoying Copy/Paste formatting behaviors

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Serializers
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: elig, Assigned: akkzilla)

References

Details

Background:

	In 5.0, text selections copied from Seamonkey to other applications will be
formatted so that they lack the annoying formatting idiosyncracies of Navigator
4.x copying. (e.g. such as from within a non left-most table cell.)

	The expected behavior will be "non-annoying" formatting; specifically, under
the most common use cases, the output upon pasting text copied from Communicator
should be formatted as optimally as is practical.
Target Milestone: M15
Item #1: (per discussion with Akkana)

	When copying text that contains <BR>s, the <BR>s should translate to line
breaks in the Clipboard content.
[setting Milestone to M15]
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Accepting bug; this will be a placeholder for any annoying/unexpected behavior
noticed in unformatted plaintext.  One current bug which I need to fix: an extra
space gets inserted before items which have inline formatting (like <b>) in the
html.
Item #1:
	If you copy text from a web page whose source contains a word, followed by a
space, followed by a line break (not a <BR>; an actual line break), followed by a
word, there will be two spaces in between the words.

	For example, on www.mozilla.org, if you copy the "Codestock is a two day..."
paragraph and view it in the Clipboard, you'll see "web content  with" (two
spaces b/w 'content' & 'with').

	The source is:

<--->
web content
with
<--->

(with a space after the word "content")
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Depends on: 13278, 13401
Summary: [WHITEBOARD] Annoying Copy/Paste formatting behaviors → Tracking bug for annoying Copy/Paste formatting behaviors
Depends on: 13442
Broke the second "Item #1" into bug #13442.

Thus, this bug no longer contains any actual bug information, and is now just a
set of dependencies for annoying/unexpected behaviors in copying unformatted
plaintext.
Changing Component to Output.
Blocks: 19423
Bulk move of all "Output" component bugs to new "DOM to Test Conversion" 
component.  Output will be deleted as a component.
Component: Output → DOM to Text Conversion
Eli: is it okay if I close this bug?  It seemed like a good idea at the time,
but I think it's outlived its usefulness and we can track 13401 by itself more
easily than through this bug.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
verified in 3/3 build.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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