531799 - getSelection doesn't work from jetpack

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Jetpack Prototype, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

I'm lying. It actually works, but just for now.

Basically, since we're in a separate context it is not easy to get window.getSelection from the active tab.

One can use jetpack.tabs.focused.contentDocument.getSelection and it does work (in Fx 3.6), but it spawns deprecation warning: 

"Deprecated method document.getSelection() called.  Please use window.getSelection() instead."

Comment 1

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

This will be addressed in the near future.

For now you can use the .contentWindow to avoid the warning.

Comment 2

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

We will be monitoring all these issues after the rebooted Jetpack code base is released in the first week of March to ensure their causes are not duplicated. Many of the bugs/issues with the prototype version of Jetpack will be made irrelevant given the structure of the new SDK.