511586 - Cut and paste doesn't handle spaces correctly.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[tiger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.14pre) Gecko/2009081901 Camino/2.0b4pre (like Firefox/3.0.14pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.14pre) Gecko/2009081901 Camino/2.0b4pre (like Firefox/3.0.14pre)

in properly-written Mac applications that allow the manipulation of text, double-clicking a word to select it and either cutting and pasting it or dragging and dropping it to a place between two words, or between a word and a punctuation mark (or wherever), is all you have to do and you're done; there are no erroneous spaces left where the word came from, nor are there either erroneous spaces present, nor necessary spaces missing from, the place the word was moved to. Firefox has never featured smart cut and paste, and Camino doesn't either. to a person accustomed to it, this is a pretty glaring flaw. if you don't want your Mac app to be forever seen as a port from Windows, i'm sorry but it has to have smart cut and paste.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. double-click a word to select it.

2. cut it from where it is and paste it (or drag and drop it) in among some other text.

3. see those erroneous spaces where the moved text used to be? see how there's no space between the moved word and the word you moved it next to? that's the problem.
Actual Results:  
it's all in the details i've already written.

Expected Results:  
do this in Safari and you'll see what the expected behavior is.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

-> Core for triage, since this is a Core (but Mac-specific) editor bug; not sure if it's a dup.

(In reply to comment #0)
> if you don't want your Mac app to be forever seen as a port from Windows

Snarky editorializing really doesn't help in bug reports. Besides, I'm not terribly concerned that people are going to see Camino--which has never existed for any platform other than the Mac--as a port.

Comment 2

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.