1954979 - Ship dom.selection.mimic_chrome_tostring.enabled

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, task)

Description

[Sean Feng [:sefeng211]]

Currently it's Nightly only.

Comment 1

[Sean Feng [:sefeng211]]

Attachment: Bug 1954979 - Ship dom.selection.mimic_chrome_tostring.enabled

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/7305216b3c70
Ship dom.selection.mimic_chrome_tostring.enabled r=masayuki

Comment 3

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7305216b3c70

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Is this something we should mention in the Fx139 relnotes? Please add a relnote-firefox? nomination to the bug if yes.

Comment 5

[Sean Feng [:sefeng211]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]:
The fix here is that window.getSelection().toString() can now return the correct text serialization if the focus in a text control, and even if the focus is not in a text control, we may still return the text serialization of a previous focused text control determined by a heuristic. Blink and webkit has something like this for a long time, the idea is to mimic their behaviour for window.getSelection().toString() specifically.

[Affects Firefox for Android]:

Same as desktop

[Suggested wording]:
window.getSelection().toString() now correctly returns the text serialization when text is selected in a text control.

[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]:

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Added to the Fx139 relnotes.