Bug 78053 – Deleting an empty blockquote should keep a placeholder

• Status: REOPENED
• Component: HTML Editing

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Press backspace inside the backspace in the following markup:
<div>hello</div>
<blockquote><br></blockquote>
<div>world</div>

WebKit generates:

<div>hello</div>
<div>world</div>

But it should be:
<div>hello</div>
<br>
<div>world</div>

or its variants instead.

[Ryosuke Niwa]

http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=25913

[Ryosuke Niwa]

It appears that we just need to generalize CompositeEditCommand::breakOutOfEmptyMailBlockquotedParagraph.

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Created attachment 126230 [details]
Fixes the bug

[Ryosuke Niwa]

It turned out that the current behavior matches both IE and Opera. The only browser that exhibits the "desired" behavior is Firefox.

[Aryeh Gregor]

When you're at the beginning of an indented block and hit Backspace, browsers don't outdent, but word processors do.  (Tested in at least Google Docs and LibreOffice, pretty sure it's true in Word too.)  This matches the behavior of list items, and I think it's logical.  I think browsers should change to match word processors here, so backspace at the start of an indented block should outdent.  This is what my spec currently requires, although if implementers really don't want it, I can change it.