667993 - Advance opposite selection handle along horizontal axis when selection handles touch

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Text Selection, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110624 Firefox/7.0a1 Fennec/7.0a1
Devices: Nexus S, Nexus One
OS: 2.3.4

Currently when both selection handles touch each other they overlay each other.

When selecting words in a paragraph or precisely a certain number of characters, the opposite selection (opposite to the currently selected) should advance in the direction of movement along the horizontal axis akin to what the stock android browser does when they both touch.

See video of the behaviour in Android 2.3.4 stock browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG0-Zx41H1o

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Aren't the selection handles secretly swapping in that video? In that case, it would be more or less the same as bug 667066.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Aren't the selection handles secretly swapping in that video? In that case,
> it would be more or less the same as bug 667066.

That's a video of the stock browser, when the handles meet, the opposite moves along the X axis and advances the selection.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

still an issue

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

If I recall I think we opted to just flip positions instead. I think this is wont-fix