On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > * The user facing functionality. Currently we expose multi-range > selections to the user in the following ways (perhaps among others that > I'm missing?): > > * Table cell selection (by Ctrl/Cmd-clicking on several table cells > allows you to select them all) > * Mouse based selection (by holding Ctrl/Cmd when selecting something > on a page with another selection present) > * (and perhaps touch based selection also similarly, but I don't have > a device I can test that on) > > There is at least one good use case for this, which is copying things to > the clipboard, but if we decide to keep the user facing functionality, > then we should determine what to expose to developers when a multi-range > selection is made by users. There are several options, such as only > representing the first selection in the range, or the latest (last) one. > > (I also wonder how many people even know about these ways to create > multi-range selections, given how undiscoverable they are! We should > probably add telemetry to measure their usage.)
I didn't know about this feature! I think it's useful, though (for the reason you mentioned: copying things to the clipboard; think multi-quoting replies and such), and now that I know about it, I expect I'm going to use it. Cheers, Botond _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
