Text selection in web browser

Bug #1486040 reported by Krzysztof Tataradziński
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1376268: Implement a touch editing UI. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

When I try to select some text (to copy it) from website (by putting my finger on some word), usually it marks too big area. Please see attachment.
Also when I want to paste something in some field on website, usually it marks area instead of showing button with paste option.

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Krzysztof Tataradziński (ktatar156) wrote :
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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote :

Again great found Krzysztof! I would say the problem is much bigger than You mentioned. I tested many Internet websites from Yahoo, through the WordPress: wkbpiast.com, and finally my own poor HTML table based: gtriderxc.tk
I would say the phone doesn't recognize what we are pointing at at all! In the photo below I'm pointing with a jack a simple string that I touched "Heute is der bestzeitstag!" and the phone mark something closer unspecyfied above the screen.
The web pages as wkbpiast.com and gtriderxc.tk looks horrible on my Aquaris. You can say the pages are not written to be displayed on a mobile device. I'll answer: try to open them with an Android device...

SECOND PART OF THIS BUG I JUST FOUND:
As I tried to copy "Heute is der bestzeitstag!" I clicked on one of the many links above. We are unable to copy the text that creates the link! Android give as such a possibility. Of Whole text on a web page will be a link, we won't be able to copy it! Only as a link, but not as a text that we can paste somewhere.

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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote :

Yahoo!
The only page that let my copy anything.

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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote :

WKBPIAST.COM on WORDPRESS

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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote :

Clicked the text but the phone marked a photo instead.

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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote :

Here seems like the phone doesn't recognize the content of a page.

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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote :

This time I increased the size of the string (the one with "dropbox") so that it was as big as my finger. The phone however chose some more interesting part of the page to copy...

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GTriderXC (gtriderxc) wrote :

One last try on a really simple HTML page without frames etc. This time the "dropbox" is really HUGE

Anyway phone marked some part of a page that I can not even see on a screen.

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Tested with BQ Aquaris

summary: - Text selection
+ Text selection in web browser
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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

This will be updated when bug #1376268 is fixd

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