Bug 3710

Summary:

display a split caret when on boundary between LTR and RTL text

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Darin Adler <darin>

Component:

HTML Editing

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

NEW

Severity:

Normal

CC:

emacemac7, enrica, fantasai.bugs, ian, mitz, playmobil, rniwa, tony, xji

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar, Regression

Version:

412

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.4

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

3729

Attachments:

Description	Flags
First cut at a fix; some wrong concepts, needs a lot of work	none

Darin Adler

Reported 2005-06-25 12:14:13 PDT

Like other editing systems on Mac OS X, WebKit should display a split caret when on the boundary between a LTR and RTL run. The high caret is the "primary caret" and corresponds to the place the caret would be for the base writing direction. The low caret is the "secondary caret" and corresponds to the place the caret would be for the other writing direction.

Attachments
First cut at a fix; some wrong concepts, needs a lot of work (55.20 KB, patch) 2005-06-25 12:44 PDT, Darin Adler	no flags	Details Formatted Diff Diff
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Darin Adler

Comment 1 2005-06-25 12:14:34 PDT

I've got a patch in the works that implements this.

Darin Adler

Comment 2 2005-06-25 12:44:21 PDT

Created attachment 2644 [details] First cut at a fix; some wrong concepts, needs a lot of work

Darin Adler

Comment 3 2005-06-26 17:15:14 PDT

Bug 3729 talks about a related issue, making the right and left arrow keys do the right thing in RTL text.

mitz

Comment 4 2006-07-16 15:50:57 PDT

I started working on this bug and on bug 3729 (starting with the latter), ressurrecting bits from Darin's patch. I am changing inlineBox() so that for "primary" it will always return the box whose direction is the same as the base direction, for both edges. That seems to work well. I also think that as the "base direction" you should take the direction of the block, which is not necessarily the same as the RenderText's direction, but I still haven't changed that.

David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)

Comment 5 2007-03-24 04:42:05 PDT

Regressions are P1.

Darin Adler

Comment 6 2007-05-04 22:17:45 PDT

<rdar://problem/5183684>

Ryosuke Niwa

Comment 7 2011-03-07 17:03:47 PST

The bug the 22386 is Windows counterpart of this bug.

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