Fennec/Features/androidcopypaste

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Android-style text selection handles	Development in progress	2011-07-01	Owner Name

Summary

Implement Gingerbread-style text selection and cursor positioning handles

Team

Who's working on this?

Feature Manager: tbd?
Lead Developer: MFinkle
Product Manager:
QA: AaronMT
UX: Madhava, Ian
Security:
Etc.

Release Requirements

Next Steps

Finkle has a restartless add-on that is being used to prototype the selection handle behavior and technical implementation.

Open Issues

Related Bugs & Dependencies

bug 652168 - Add cursor positioning thumb controls to edit boxes
bug 661388 - Support selecting text in web content
bug 659022 - Implement copy from content

Designs

If we could use the native method, we'd do so, so, instead, we have to mimic it, much as we do with the Android Menu.

This page here has a description of the behavior: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html

One-touch word selection and copy/paste
When entering text or viewing a web page, the user can quickly select a word by press-hold, then copy to the clipboard and paste. Pressing on a word enters a free-selection mode — the user can adjust the selection area as needed by dragging a set of bounding arrows to new positions, then copy the bounded area by pressing anywhere in the selection area.

For text entry, the user can slide-press to enter a cursor mode, then reposition the cursor easily and accurately by dragging the cursor arrow. With both the selection and cursor modes, no use of a trackball is needed.

Ian will be creating the necessary visual assets.

Use Cases

Test Plans

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