56029 - Copying from a "view source" window copyes the result, not the sourse of the page

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Eugene Savitsky]

1. Load some page.
2. Click View Source
3. Select some source (block)
4. Now copy it into some txt document for example.

Result: you copyed a rendered page (without elements)

Expected result: you should copy the *source* with all tags etc.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to XPApps

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

hi eugene, got some questions:

1. what platform did you see this on?
2. how did you copy the selection --ie, by keyboard shortcut (eg, Ctrl+C) or if
you're on a unix platform, by the mere selection action of dragging?
3. what build (trunk or branch?) did you use?

i'm guessing that this should go to DOM->text conversion. but punt back if
otherwise.

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

Yes, DOM->Text conversion is a good place for this bug.  But I can't reproduce
it; when I copy (by autocopy) from View Source, whether I paste (middle-mouse)
into emacs (plaintext) or our editor (html), I get the source html tags pasted,
complete with html tags.  This is true on yesterday's linux debug trunk build,
and yesterday's optimized linux branch build.

Marking worksforme -- reopen with very specific instructions if you're still
seeing it.

Comment 4

[sujay]

verified in 10/12 build.