55923 - Dragging past end of document should select to end

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dragging from inside a document past the end of the document should select the 
part of the document after where you started.  Similarly, dragging above the 
beginning of the document should select everything before where you started.  
Dragging in from outside of the document should also work.

This would make it much easier to:
- select the last line of a document (especially if it goes off the screen)
- select an entire document using the mouse

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: html testcase

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: plain text testcase

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Areas between tables should also be "between tables" when selecting instead of 
looking at the region directly above or below them.  (also paragraphs, divs, 
etc).

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

We're not going to get to this by RTM.

Comment 5

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

About your first part, what if someone only wants to select half the document 
and Mozilla selects the whole document because they dragged it all the way to 
the end? If dragging passed the last line will automatically select the whole 
document, it will be very easy to select the whole document by accident if you 
are selecting the document really quickly by moving the cursor far away from 
where you started selecting.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

changing selection qa to tpreston.

Comment 7

[Uri Bernstein]

This (esp. considering comment #3) looks like a request to implement bug 19191 for Windows (i.e., set browser.drag_out_of_frame_style to "1" for Windows, as for Mac and Unix).

Jesse - is that what you really want(ed 6 years ago)? How does it compare with Windows conventions?

Comment 8

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

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

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.