48685 - Can't drag text on certain pages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

Description

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

- go to above url (also happens with any of the weather.com pages, like if you 
search for weather in "napa" or "san jose")
- select some text (not a link, but text)
- drag text

expected:
- start a drag with selected text

actual:
- nothing happens

Odd thing is, this appears to be mac only. The dragGesture is generated, it gets 
into the onDragStart function in the content area's Dnd observer, but it doesn't 
find the selection. i added some dumps and it appears that it can't get the 
domSelection and so it falls in the "else" clause with aEvent.target.localName 
equal to #text. When the JS sees #text, it thinks it's in a link and bails early 
if it can't find one, as is the case here.

Why this is mac only is beyond me, and text dragging works on other pages, like 
the mozilla.org homepage.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

There is some mac-specific text selection behaviour, controlled by a pref, so 
perhaps that code is firing.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

*SPAM*: Changing the QA contact of all open/resolved Selection bugs from 
[e-mail] to [e-mail].  After the many great years of service 
Eli has given to Mozilla, it's time for him to move on; he has accepted a 
position at Eazel.  We'll be sad to see him go, and I'll do my best to fill his 
spot...

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

Blake -- can you narrow down the page to what is not getting selected and 
dragged, that would help quite a bit

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

Unfortunately, I can't -- I don't have a mac.  Asa said he might be able to 
help out if he gets a chance, or maybe Paul or Patty could do it (changing QA 
to Paul for now since it's useless for me to be QA on a mac-only bug)

Sorry.

Comment 5

[Paul Wyskoczka]

I tried 3 or 4 pages described above on www.weather.com and I was able to drag
the text content to BBedit.  I used build 2000082308.

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

great news! Will mark this as wfm, one of those mystery fixes

Comment 7

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Seeing this bug on 2000082313 OS9. Reopening, adding makingtest 
keyword. Should have a testcase by next Monday. I was unable to drag the 
text to bbedit (or anywhere for that matter) [e-mail]: can you 
still make this work?

Comment 8

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

I had a little more time than I thought I would so I made a testcase today! 
Adding testcase keyword, removing makingtest keyword. This seems to 
be a problem with the frameset because just viewing the main frame 
makes the problem go away.

Comment 9

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Attachment: Testcase of the problem. Open the index.html file in mozilla

Comment 10

[rubydoo123]

can't access the testcase

Comment 11

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i tried this with a bug from 9/6/00 and it still happens. none of the text on
the given url is draggable. what more info do you need? removing [needs info]

Comment 12

[rubydoo123]

using the mac on 4.x results in the same behavior, marking nsbeta3- and setting 
to future, the user can use copy/paste

need info was because i could not access the attached testcase

Comment 13

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

um, of course it won't work in 4.x, because mac didn't have this in 4.x.

request re-triage.

Comment 14

[rubydoo123]

sorry, there is a wrkaround

Comment 15

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

over to Terri, who now does qa for drag'n'drop.

Comment 16

[Kathleen :Brade]

I can't open the attached test case from August.
I can't reproduce this bug; resolving it as worksforme to see if anyone else can
reproduce this problem on a *Macintosh*.