Closed Bug 1067181 Opened 10 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Mozilla | MDN menuitem "Edit page", "View page" are incompatible with text selection in Firefox for Android

Categories

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: anaran, Unassigned)

References

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Details

All MDN pages add a handy context menu to the page to edit or view the history of that page.

This is accomplished by:

<menu id="edit-history-menu" type="context">

    <menuitem label="Edit page" data-action="$edit"></menuitem>
    <menuitem label="View page history" data-action="$history"></menuitem>

</menu>

For an example see
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/cfx

In Firefox for Android, however, these context menu entries make it impossible to select any text on such pages. The menu always comes up and blocks text selection.

The root cause may well be with the implementation of text selection in Firefox for Android, because text selection is mutually exclusive with a context menu there.

See also
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jot/#addon-description

I'm filing it here in the hope that a workaround may be possible to make MDN compatible with Firefox for Android, but perhaps this is putting the cart before the horse.
Summary: Mozilla | MDN menuitem "Edit page", "View page" override, instead of add to context menu in Firefox for Android → Mozilla | MDN menuitem "Edit page", "View page" are incompatible with text selection in Firefox for Android
I just cloned Bug 1067183 from this one (against Firefox for Android).
Assignee: eshepherd → nobody
Component: General → Wiki pages
OS: Windows XP → Android
Product: Developer Documentation → Mozilla Developer Network
Hardware: x86 → All
Let's do 2 things:

1) replicate, maybe even with a video attachment
2 [review]) understand how many people are affected -- how many visitors have this configuration?
Severity: normal → trivial
This UX is equally broken for Firefox OS, not just Android.

I want to make a text selection, e.g. in preparation for a bug report, and I get offered exactly two things:

Edit page
View page history

What if I want to interact with it like with any other web page in the universe?
Select a word? a  regions? all? copy the selection?

I think "understand how many people are affected" is beside the point, because everybody needing these well-established features at some point will be affected.
Severity: trivial → normal
OS: Android → All
MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: developer.mozilla.org → developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
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