191469 - New noncontinuous selection feature

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 73373

(Core :: DOM: Selection, enhancement)

Description

[Percy Cabello]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I think it would be a good feature to enable non continuous selections on web
pages. Several times for example I would like to print the title of the article
and just a paragraph, or maybe the name of a place and just the contact
information provided, or the name of a person and his/her photograph. This of
course may also apply for copying non cotinuos selections. As common, this could
be achieved by Ctrl + selecting. The resultant print or paste should be a
continuous content, deleting inner "content separators".

Just think this would be very useful, and may be a killer feature for Mozilla
over other browsers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to make a non continuous selection
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Yes, you can't.

Expected Results:  
You can.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

->selection

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

confirming. Note that we can already do this with table cells (eg on this page).

Comment 3

[Daniel Clemente]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73373 ***