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Firefox OS Simulator is a test environment for Firefox OS. Use it to test your apps in a Firefox OS-like environment that looks and feels like a mobile phone.
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Allowing text selection #700

Open sudheesh001 opened 11 years ago

sudheesh001 commented 11 years ago

Feature Request

I've just loaded and application onto the simulator whose Validation Result: OK

But, the Firefox OS Simulator shows the following screen.

file not found

The simulator doesn't allow the error message shown to be selected. Maybe turning in caret browsing or something similar for easy selection of these items would be an advantage.

nickdesaulniers commented 11 years ago

Hi @sudheesh001 , what is "caret browsing?"

sudheesh001 commented 11 years ago

@nickdesaulniers . Keyboard navigation where a caret (also known as "text cursor", "text insertion cursor", or "text selection cursor") is used to navigate within a text document. It is a fundamental feature for applications that deal with text, for example text editors, word processors and desktop publishing programs. Similar to what happens when F7 is pressed on a Firefox browser.

On a phone, something like the select option. Something like the selection on an iPhone. select

If this ability can be enable on the Simulator in terms of caret browsing where one can navigate, select text, copy text etc.., using the keyboard, It'd become easier for developers to search for issues during their debugging.

Eg. In the image I first posted. Allowing keyboard navigation would help the developer look up if anyone else faces the same issue by simply copying and pasting it. So yeah, Its all about the ability to copy text present in simulator onto laptop/desktop clipboard and then utilize it.