304703 - window.onselect does not work

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Mike Hearn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

In Firefox 1.0.x, setting "window.onselect" doesn't work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In a web page set window.onselect to an event handler
2. Handler is not called when the user selects some text

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We only trigger onselect events for selection within text inputs...

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven't been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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