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Bug 38044 - VisualEditor: Instead of inspector-triggering icon, just trigger it whenever the user selects some content
VisualEditor: Instead of inspector-triggering icon, just trigger it whenever ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized enhancement
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Assigned To: Rob Moen
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Reported: 2012-06-28 20:54 UTC by James Forrester
Modified: 2013-02-05 20:12 UTC (History)
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Description James Forrester 2012-06-28 20:54:32 UTC 
From user submission. Uses same design argot as iOS. Perhaps confusing for non-iOS situations?
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2012-06-28 20:57:48 UTC 
A potential problem here is overlapping with the system's own buttons. When you select on iOS, you get a little popup menu offering copy/cut/paste.

We already overlap our arrow with the iOS selection handle (bug 37874), so make sure we don't go from one overlap to another. :)
Comment 2 James Forrester 2012-06-28 21:13:17 UTC 
I imagine we'd want to suppress iOS's in-built behaviour if that happened (or suppress ours and magically work with it, somehow - using a generic mobile interface like PhoneGap, so we don't endlessly code for mobile? To discuss at a proper design meeting!
Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2012-06-28 21:53:00 UTC 
If we suppressed the default popup (assuming that's possible), then you'd be unable to copy/cut/paste text.

That.... sounds bad. :)
Comment 4 Rob Moen 2012-07-06 23:31:56 UTC 
Brion: Agreed.  IF anything we should surpress our context icon in IOS.  Perhaps invent our own tool there as well, though it seems it may get a bit cluttered.
Comment 5 James Forrester 2013-02-05 20:12:13 UTC 
This is now how CE works; not sure when we altered behaviour to 'fix' it.
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