1631472 - designMode=on automatically creates a selection only on Firefox

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Editor, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

Attachment: designmode-autofocus.html

1. Open the attachment

Firefox: It shows a text caret
Blink/WebKit: No caret

Comment 1

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

I consider the behavior in Gecko rather expected. One after all activates the designMode.

Comment 2

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

Yeah, I think so. And Thunderbird and SeaMonkey's Composer may depend on the behavior (i.e., may not explicitly set focus to the document). I think, only for the specific testcase of bug 1322106, it does not make sense to change our behavior. But it might be better to investigate that this causes actual web-compat issues or security issues.