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Comment 7 for bug 1573620

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Santosh (santoshbit2007) wrote on 2016-06-02: Re: [Bug 1573620] Re: can't deselect text after selecting on nytimes.com

Yes, I am doing that today now

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Olivier Tilloy <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> I have verified that with a custom UA string override for
> mobile.nytimes.com, the issue goes away.
> I used an iphone UA string:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X)
> AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334
> Safari/7534.48.3
>
> But I’m guessing that an android one would do just fine, too.
>
> Santosh, would you mind adding such an override to the browser? The
> relevant file is https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/webbrowser-
> app/trunk/view/head:/src/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-mobile.js.
>
> ** Changed in: oxide
> Status: In Progress => Invalid
>
> ** Also affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Santosh (santoshbit2007)
>
> ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573620
>
> Title:
> can't deselect text after selecting on nytimes.com
>
> Status in Canonical System Image:
> In Progress
> Status in Oxide:
> Invalid
> Status in webapps-sprint:
> In Progress
> Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> This occurs on nytimes.com, most other sites works but guessing others
> will not work as well.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> - go to nytimes.com and click on a news article
> - long press and drag the handles to select some text
> - tap on another area of the page to deselect the selected text
>
> Expected results:
> - selected text should become unselected
>
> Actual results:
> - text remains selected
>
> Note, this works correctly in Chrome for iOS
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1573620/+subscriptions
>

Yes, I am doing that today now

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@canonical.com
> wrote:

> I have verified that with a custom UA string override for
> mobile.nytimes.com, the issue goes away.
> I used an iphone UA string:
>
>    Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X)
> AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334
> Safari/7534.48.3
>
> But I’m guessing that an android one would do just fine, too.
>
> Santosh, would you mind adding such an override to the browser? The
> relevant file is https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/webbrowser-
> app/trunk/view/head:/src/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-mobile.js.
>
> ** Changed in: oxide
>        Status: In Progress => Invalid
>
> ** Also affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided
>        Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
>      Assignee: (unassigned) => Santosh (santoshbit2007)
>
> ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573620
>
> Title:
>   can't deselect text after selecting on nytimes.com
>
> Status in Canonical System Image:
>   In Progress
> Status in Oxide:
>   Invalid
> Status in webapps-sprint:
>   In Progress
> Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   This occurs on nytimes.com, most other sites works but guessing others
>   will not work as well.
>
>   Steps to reproduce:
>   - go to nytimes.com and click on a news article
>   - long press and drag the handles to select some text
>   - tap on another area of the page to deselect the selected text
>
>   Expected results:
>   - selected text should become unselected
>
>   Actual results:
>   - text remains selected
>
>   Note, this works correctly in Chrome for iOS
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1573620/+subscriptions
>