255636 - selection works very bad on flash movie with wmode="Opaque"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[riccardo caroli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

when using flash movie with wmode=Opaque, all the text selectable inside the
flash movie works bad:
- mouse icon don't show the selection
- selection works a little, cause dragging selection don't works

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. make flash document
2. publish it
3. set wmode=Opaque

Actual Results:  
selection with mouse on textfield works bad

Expected Results:  
1-selection should display mouse selection icon
2-dragging the mouse over the selection would drag the selection

Comment 1

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

I can confirm that text selection behaves poorly on Mozilla and works properly in 
IE, but I don't know if this is actually a Mozilla bug.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040814

Comment 2

[Ng Ming Hong]

Work properly in Opera too:
Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.0; U) [en]

Comment 3

[riccardo caroli]

the bug I think depends on the Drag of the items inside swf with wmode=opaque

See this
http://www.beaver82.com/temp/firefox_bug_selection.html

firefox 0.9.3 and windowsXP sp1

Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

Nothing was checked in, no bug or patched referenced as a fix.

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