56402 - Double-clicking to select word also selects adjacent punctuation and whitespace

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 16352

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

Description

[davby]

Build ID: 200010221

Double-clicking to select a word in a text widget or the document body also
selects punctuation and whitespace following the word.

To reproduce: Enter the following in a text widget (including the quotation
marks): "One, two, three!". Double-click on "One". Mozilla selects the word and
the quotation mark preceding the word and the comma and space following the
word. Double-click on "two", and Mozilla selects the comma and space following
the word. Double-click on "three" and Mozilla selects the exclamation mark and
quotation mark following the word.

I expected Mozilla to select only the actual words, not the punctuation or
whitespace following or preceding the word.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

I can confirm that this is the behavior I see on Macintosh as well.  I don't 
think Mike is really the owner for this bug (at least the punctuation stuff) but 
I can't remember who is the owner... maybe ftang will know?

Setting this bug to Future.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16352 ***