This is seriously great work. Thanks Mark! James
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Mark Capella <[email protected]> wrote: > Tonight we'll be moving implementation of the Gecko TouchCarets, initially > built as part of FF/OS, that will be replacing our current Java Text > Selection UI to m-c. (bug 988143). > > It will be available behind two prefs : |touchcaret.enabled| and > |selectioncaret.enabled|, to allow easy switching between the two versions. > The prefs work together as a pair, so enable / disable them as such. > > We hope to find early adopters to check it out and file bugs, suggestions, > etc. It's been in dogfooding for awhile and stable, but if you do spot > something, you can file against the Firefox for Android / Text Selection > component. I expect a subset of any issues identified may be more > appropriately moved to Core / Selection if they involve placement or > manipulation of the UI components, but we'll work that out. > > While the Carets change from angular to rounded and from orange to blue, > you shouldn't see any difference in the interaction of the handles and our > native Selection Actionbar. The handle positioning, becoming inherent to > platform, reduces a lot of our complexity. > > If you have a "favorite" outstanding issue with the current > implementation, you may find it solved by the basic new version. I recently > checked through the issue backlog and found several instances where we gain > a solution upfront. > > That's it for now, -- mark > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >
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