76916 - Initial selection in a document should be disabled

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

We currently default to setting selection to on in new frames/windows. This means 
that if selection is set in a way that does not involve focus changes (e.g. by 
JavaScript, or Find, or whatever), then selection can appear on (focussed) in 
multiple frames at the same time.

We should default selection to the disabled state. We'll get a focus event if the 
user clicks in a frame, which will change the selection state to on.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: nsPresShell fix

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

target for 0.9.1.
Can we add a one line comment that explains why we default to off?  Something 
like:  "default off so we don't get multiple frames showing selection; instead 
rely on focus event" or a pointer to this bug?

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

moving to 1.0

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

changing selection qa to tpreston.

Comment 6

[Vedran Miletic]

retargeting

Comment 7

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.