851388 - (caret-sel) Story - Add support for caret selection via touch

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Input, defect, P2)

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Once bug 832957 lands, selection will have improved quite a bit. However those patches do not include caret selection support. 

STR:

1) open a page with a text area with text in it
2) tap once to set the caret location

result: the caret is positioned but there is no metro singular monocle to drag select text displayed.

Comment 1

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Swapping out epic trackers: this was in app bar, it should be content feature related. (content text selection)

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

In testing, please avoid bug 854182. I'll be looking at monocle positioning problems after the soft keyboard comes up once we figure out the right way to handle that.

I have revamped tests and some new ones as well, but those bugs don't have to block qa'ing this work.

Comment 3

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Juan, you might want to wait for bug 848594 too.

Comment 4

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

Tested on 2013-03-29 on Nightly built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8693d1d4c86d
- Tested basic caret selection in text areas. When I tap on the text I get a monocle to appear, which I can drag left or right to select text.
- I still see problems associated with bug 854182, where depending on where your text area is relative to where the virtual keyboard appears the text area can be hidden.
- Caret selection and monocles are dismissed when tapping outside the text area.
- I saw both problems mentioned above bug 850673 and bug 855417.

I'm verifying the basic story, and I will follow up with the associated defects.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Attachment: Caret selection in text fields

Comment 6

[Kamil Jozwiak [:kjozwiak]]

Went through the following "Story" for iteration #9 with some issues. Used the following build:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2013-07-09-03-02-04-mozilla-central/

- Went through the story that has been attached without any issues
- Went through the original test case from comment 0 without any issues
- Went through the test cases added in comment 4 without any issues
- Went through the above test cases using "Filled" view without any issues

Issues found:

- Sporadic OSK when tapping inside text area's (not always appearing)
- Created Bug 891688 (issues with caret monocles not always appearing)

Comment 7

[Samvedana (:Samvedana)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Build ID: 20130808030205
Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fd4cf30428b0

Didn't work for me
Tested on windows 8 using latest nightly  for iteration-11. Followed steps provided in success scenario. When I tapped between "Write something here" I saw one monocle. I dragged to select word, the word was selected. If I one monocle cross other then the behavior is not expected.

See attached video at http://youtu.be/QFuVziHhV2Y