516413 - copy and paste is broken in Safari 4

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Skywriter Graveyard :: Editor, defect)

Description

[Alex Iskander]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_1; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9
Build Identifier: 

I'm not sure if it is a Snow Leopard or Safari 4 in general thing, but the "Hidden World" method for copy and paste does not work for Safari any longer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select some text in Bespin.
2. CMD-C.
3. Go to a non-Bespin text box.
4. CMD-V.

Actual Results:  
Whatever was on the clipboard (not from Bespin) is pasted.

Expected Results:  
The text copied from Bespin should be pasted.

The Hidden World method in general doesn't seem to work. I managed to make copy work by using a hidden IFrame, but paste wouldn't work.

I finally fixed it by using DOMEvents, at least to the extent that it now works on Safari 4 for Mac, Firefox for Mac, and the latest WebKit Nightly. I will be attempting to add the patch to this bug.

Comment 1

[Alex Iskander]

Attachment: Clipboard Fix

This fixes the clipboard in Safari.

Comment 2

[Alex Iskander]

Attachment: Pull Request Patch

I'm still not sure how we are supposed to do pull requests. I am submitting this here because that is the vague impression I get of what we are supposed to do… but honestly, I have no idea. I'm posting to bespin-core.

Comment 3

[Alex Iskander]

Resolved in: http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/bespin/rev/03c7baee0679
and: http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/bespin/rev/5fa22c68f256
and a tiny bit in: http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/bespin/rev/1a6cdb90863a