Bug 162577 – [iOS] REGRESSION (r182126): Selection highlight and handles aren’t visible with WKSelectionGranularityCharacter

• Component: WebKit2
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

When selectionGranularity is set to WKSelectionGranularityCharacter, the selection UI is broken: the selection highlights and the selection handles are never visible.

<rdar://problem/28481984>

Created attachment 289868 [details]
Avoid clipping the selection UI when it is not confined to an element

[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

Comment on attachment 289868 [details]
Avoid clipping the selection UI when it is not confined to an element

I think we should go the extra mile here to add testing.

Created attachment 289965 [details]
Avoid clipping the selection UI when it is not confined to an element

Added a test. I will need help making it run only in iOS with WebKit2.

[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

Comment on attachment 289965 [details]
Avoid clipping the selection UI when it is not confined to an element

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=289965&action=review

> Tools/TestRunnerShared/UIScriptContext/Bindings/UIScriptController.idl:82
> +    readonly attribute object selectionRangeViewRects;

Would be nice if a comment said what this returned (like "Returns an array of objects with 'left', 'top', 'width', 'height' properties"

Created attachment 289980 [details]
Avoid clipping the selection UI when it is not confined to an element

Tried to fix failing builds.

Fixed in <https://trac.webkit.org/r206449>.