310214 - Text selection in SVG module works only through "select all" command, not via the mouse.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 292498

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Adrian Winchell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

10.16 Text selection and clipboard operations

Conforming SVG viewers on systems which have the capacity for text selection
(e.g., systems which are equipped with a pointer device such as a mouse) and
which have system clipboards for copy/paste operations are required to support:

    * user selection of text strings in SVG content
    * the ability to copy selected text strings to the system clipboard


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an SVG graphic with text
2. Attempt to select the text by clicking-and-dragging
3.

Actual Results:  
Not a thing, treated it as unselectable/blank page. However CTRL-A (Select all)
behaves appropriately by selecting the text and allowing it to be copied.

Expected Results:  
Selected the text string in response to the mouse input, and permitted it to be
copied to the clipboard.

Easy workaround: Adobe beta SVG plugin. (Then again, should "other software"
really be considered a workaround?)

Sample code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="100%"
     height="100%" viewBox="0 0 1024 768" version="1.1">
<text x="0" y="30">Hello, world!</text>
</svg>

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 292498 ***