292003 - Tried to copy text from page and paste it in another app - failed! no text to paste.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Anthony Meadow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050417 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050417 Camino/0.8+

Occasionally I'll copy the text from a web page to paste into my email program
(eudora). I've seen this problem before with other earlier versions of Camino
and finally have a page to send you. I select some text on this web page and try
to copy it and then paste it into Eudora. There's nothing there!

It does work in Safari (I'm now running 1.3 (v312))

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to web page
2. Select all
3. Copy (shortcut or menu)
4. Switch to another program and try to paste.
Actual Results:  
nothing to paste

Expected Results:  
Copy/paste the selected text.

I've experimented with the particular page and found that if I select a
paragraph or two I can copy/paste. When I select a large amount of text it does
not work. When I look at the page source I see rather a lot of gnarly JavaScript
so I suspect that there's something with how this page is encoded.

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

wfm in 083.

can someone try the trunk?

Comment 2

[Jasper]

WFM on trunk

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

For the record, I can repro this problem in 20050426, but I can paste the whole
page into TextEdit, Stickies, etc., so I'm fairly certain this is an Eudora bug.