Re: [ui] time to re-introduce the 'user-select' property to the spec?

• From: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
• Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:39:06 +0300
• To: "Edward O'Connor" <eoconnor@apple.com>, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com>
• Cc: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <CAKA+AxnN632zGFHebbogTiJm-qTaoxWz0qSc5nwxkxqb0DD17w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com> wrote:
> §5.3.3 of the old "User Interface for CSS3" module defines the 'all'
> value for 'user-select' like so:
>
>   all
>     Only the entire contents as a whole can be selected.
>
> Which is indeed the behavior that we're seeking. What's the use case for
> Mozilla's divergence here? The MDN description seems bizarre. Why would
> a Web author want such behavior ever?

I don't know.  Ehsan?

Received on Thursday, 26 July 2012 09:40:01 UTC