1309612 - Ship the selection events API

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

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This bug tracks the work to ship the selection API.

Comment 1

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Sent an intent to ship email to dev-platform.

Comment 2

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Attachment: Ship the selection events API

Comment 3

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

So this depends on still couple of open bugs. Why it is ok to ship without those fixed?

Comment 4

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(In reply to Olli Pettay [:smaug] from comment #3)
> So this depends on still couple of open bugs. Why it is ok to ship without
> those fixed?

Because they all have patches on inbound.  Also see bug 1309626 comment 1.

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

aha, thanks.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/eb510465cd0f
Ship the selection events API; r=smaug

Comment 7

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/eb510465cd0f

Comment 8

[yisibl]

Update: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/52

Comment 9

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Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: By shipping this API we are catching up with other browser engines, so Web developers may be interested to know.
[Affects Firefox for Android]: Yes.
[Suggested wording]: Added support for selection events (selectstart and selectionchange)
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: API documentation: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/selectstart>, <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/selectionchange>

Comment 10

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

I've documented the new features and had a go at consolidating the existing features that were already documented in some form.

First, I've made a landing page for the API:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection_API

Next, I've made sure these pages are present and up-to-date:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/selectstart
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/selectionchange
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalEventHandlers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalEventHandlers/onselectionchange
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalEventHandlers/onselectstart

I've also added a note to the Fx52 release notes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/52#DOM_HTML_DOM

Let me know if that's OK. Thanks!