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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Other Documentation
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- Competitive landscape
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- Whatever else is useful to the project.
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| ETA | Estimated date for completion of the current feature task. Overall ETA for the feature is the product release date. |