On Jul 23, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Alice Cheng <[email protected]> wrote: > We intend to work on an experimental implementation of a new > -webkit-user-select value that we are calling "atomic". This value causes the > element to which it is applied to behave atomically for selection purposes; > either all of none of the element and its contents are contained in the > selection. > > Could you give us an example of how this properly might be used? > > The "user-select" property is not currently specified in any CSS > specification, but we intend to start discussion on www-style. > > Yes! Given that IE10 now supports -ms-user-select, it is imperative that we > spec this property in the CSS working group. > > Firefox implements this property (prefixed with "-moz"). They have a value, > "all", that superficially behaves like "atomic", but has some different > behavior under incremental selection, which is why we're not using that value. > > Could you elaborate more on the difference? Maybe the difference is small > enough that it makes sense to reuse "all". e.g. Mozilla might be willing to > change their behavior for "all".
Mozilla is not selecting atomically using shift + right. It also does not select atomically upon dragging. These might just be bugs, but we do hope Mozilla will clarify their behavior via the www-style thread. Here is a link: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0541.html > > - Ryosuke > Thanks, Alice
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