393227 - Double-click selection should not stop at an underscore on Mac

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

STR:
 1. Type test_text into a form or the URL bar
 2. Double click on the word "test"

Expected results:
 test_text is selected

Actual results:
 test is selected

To verify that this is the correct behavior on Mac, try this in any native mac app (TextEdit, Adium, etc).

Talking to Eli, nsTextFrame::PeekOffsetWord is the place to look at for this

Comment 1

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

See bug 389421, which might affect this (and the patch there changes this code quite a bit)

Comment 2

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

I'll wait on this until bug 389421 lands, thanks roc.

Comment 3

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

This is not a regression from FF2, and therefore not a blocker IMHO, and therefore not 1.9 material.

Making word selection exactly agree with each platform would be an interesting project, but I don't think it's 1.9 material; I doubt fixing this one bug will make us fully OS X compatible. Probably the "right" thing to do would be to expose native APIs for this ... however, then we'd probably have trouble with people complaining about things changing from older releases. I've found that it's hard to please everyone in this area.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

From a user perspective, this has become more visible since bug 16203 was fixed. Blocking bug 73812 per bug 196175 comment 7.