293292 - Context-dependant attributes (rel and rev) should not be copied automatically

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050503 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050503 Firefox/1.0.4

Context-dependant attributes (rel and rev) should not be copied automatically.
This is a simple usability problem. Generally, users are not aware that these
attributes are present, much less being copied. For people who know what they're
doing, a prompt would be nice, but it should be disabled by default. Such a
prompt should probably be something like:
"The selection you are copying contains context-sensitive information. Would you
like to have it removed? [OK] [Cancel]"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy a link with @rel and/or @rev
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
The link is copied (in rich text mode) with all attributes intact

Expected Results:  
Context sensitive ones (rel and rev) should not be copied

Comment 1

[Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma]

The alternative is to handle this on each paste operation, but I think that
would be really annoying.

Comment 2

[Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma]

I should note that the link has a simple test link and a rich text area to test
it in. However it doesn't work in 1.0.3 for some reason.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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