Closed Bug 6875 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Double-clicking has a strange idea of a word

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Selection
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16352

People

(Reporter: alistair.vining, Assigned: akkzilla)

References

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Details

Double-click to select selects sometimes one word, sometimes five...

Try e.g. resource:/res/samples/test0.html

Under 'Numbered list', double-clicking on:
'One' = Two words
'Two' = One word
'Apples' = Five, the rest of the <OL> and the word 'Justified'

Other examples on this page (click on 'Verdana', etc.) and the rest
OS: Windows 95 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Target Milestone: M9
set to M9 per Mike's current schedule
Per a request from Selection and Search component eng (mjudge) and qa (elig),
moving all "Selection and Search" bugs to new "Selection" component.  Original
"Selection and Search" component will be retired.
QA Contact: claudius → elig
[QA Assigning to self.]
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M9 → M10
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9981 ***
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Rubber-stamping as duplicate, as any issues documented within this bug report
will be double-checked upon verifying 9981.
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Re-opening and un-duping.



Specifically, double-clicking in the first character of a word that is the first


item in a bulleted list results in the word before it also being selected.



(e.g. Double-click on the green "O" in "Bulleted List" section of "Listings".
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M10 → M15
setting milestone to 15, this can wait till post beta.

I tried this out on the 10/12/99 build on win95 and what I found was this -- if
I set the cursor to the left of the first character of a word and dbl-clicked,
the previous word and the current word were selected. If I move the cursor to
the right of the first character, only the current word is selected. Is this
what you found Eli? I wasn't even in a list, just a string of text.
I believe it's a bit more complex than that. There are three scenarios I've been
able to identify, just from this page alone:

#1: Lists --- behaves as beppe describes.

#2: With Paragraphs, clicking to the left of the first word results in (only) the
final word of the previous sentence being highlighted.

#3: Double-clicking to the left of the first word on a page kills Mozilla
entirely; menus dead, no more selections, scrolling, or anything. <This may be a
separate bug.>

(There are other examples on table-based pages, e.g. on www.mozilla.org, click
about 3 pixels to the left of the second word in the "Design Patterns in Mozilla
Contest", and it'll select the item's subject.)
Since this is marked M15, and the crash is cross-platform, I'm going to split it
out into a separate bug.
Severity: normal → major
Summary: Double-clicking has a strange idea of a word → [crash] Double-clicking has a strange idea of a word
Per chat with mjudge, I'm going to leave it in this bug.

beppe, I'd suggest putting this back at the milestone it was at before (pre-
beta), due to the crash case below.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
this has been fixed. there is still a problem with the selection of extra
spcaes, but that is actually bug number 11544. so this bug is fixed. ya!
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
OS: All → Mac System 8.6
Hardware: All → Macintosh
Summary: [crash] Double-clicking has a strange idea of a word → Double-clicking has a strange idea of a word
Sorry to spoil the jubilation, but I'm reopening this ... bug reproduced on MacOS
build 1999110313.

Specifically, double-click on the *left side* of the first character of a word,
and both that word and the previous word are selected. (So for best results, try
a word beginning with `m' or `w' ...:-)

Take care when reproducing this with Example 0, because selection is not working
at all for the headings at the moment, or for the beginning of the first
paragraph. This seems to be a separate bug ...

[Changing summary to reflect the fact that this is no longer a crashing problem]
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Clearing FIXED resolution due to reopen.
Thanks, mpt26@canterbury!
Spoiled your day, did I? :-)
Actually, you made my day. ;)

I've been dreading having to do this verification, and was delighted to see
someone highly competent like yourself opt to do it instead!
Still a problem with a current build, exactly as reported by 
mpt26@student.canterbury.ac.nz  1999-11-06  -- but on NT. 

Marking Platform/OS as All/All, since this seems very unlikely to be a PP bug.

Tested with: 2000-01-20-08-M13 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3
URL: resource:/res/samples/test0.html
OS: Mac System 8.6 → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
reassign to akkana; Akkana--see if you can make any progress on this one.  The 
problem is that we are in between words and jump to the beginning of the previous 
word and the end of the next word.
Assignee: mjudge → akkana
Status: REOPENED → NEW
*** Bug 22421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Duping to another bug which contains a more elaborate test case.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16352 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verifying as duplicate; will check this bug for unchecked test scenarios when
verifying 16352.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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