[Netsurf-develop] Text selection

On 18 Apr, James Bursa wrote: [snip] Many thanks to all involved in these new features; very useful indeed. Some feedback on the current (18 Apr 2005 12:00) behaviour: # Difficult (impossible*) to start a text selection if the text you want starts with a link (you end up following the link instead). Suggest altering the detection area to include a few pixels to the left and right of text so a text selection drag can be started without clicking on a link (and without drag scolling). # Having made a selection, if you ctrl-drag with the intent to save out but are unfortunate enough to carelessly start your ctrl-drag on a link, you follow the link and lose your selection. Suggest disable link following if ctrl is held down and a text selection is active (would also let you save out text that was all a link). # Would be nice if you could do various levels of multi-clicking to select various amounts of text, eg. double-click to select a word, triple-click to select a line, quad-click a paragraph. # I get the strong urge to ctrl-drag a link (unselected) and for the url of the object being linked to be saved out as text. Suggest disable link following if ctrl is held down and implement this instead. # Text selections that are ctrl-dragged out have unpredictable wrapping and spacing behaviour. From a brief test at drobe.co.uk, if a selection starts with text that is visually the start of a paragraph, the saved out text beings with one or more blank lines. <a href>s within a paragraph of text seem to cause an end-of-line to be inserted to the left of them in the output text. [*] Only truly impossible if it ends with a link as well, stopping you dragging backwards. -- Sendu Bala http://sendu.me.uk/ | Tori, Kenshin, DNA and my Iyonix "I tell you with no ego that this is my finest blade. If you should encounter God, God will be cut."