[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-3508) Public Comment: ODF-Next: Group element - was: Proposal for Preferred Selection inText Documents

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Andreas Guelzow  commented on OFFICE-3508:
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1) The original comment by Leonard confuses application behaviour with
document format. While it may be reasonable to provide a way to define
"preferred" possibly discontinuous data region, it is definitely not
within the ODF scope to describe whether a single click can be used to
select that region or whether the user needs to provide some magic
incantation. That is clearly within the scope of a user interface
choice.

2) I would be very worried if clicking on some text would select a
discontinuous selection of text/data including some possibly invisible,
or not currently visible, data. The user may be easily persuaded to
paste this in some other application without really knowing what the
pasted data is. This has security implications.

3) The described user interface mechanism seems to take a users control
away of what to copy so a single click should surely not select some
random discontinuous data grouping. This behaviour would also be very
surprising to unsuspecting users.


> Public Comment: ODF-Next: Group element - was: Proposal for Preferred Selection inText Documents
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFFICE-3508
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3508
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text
>    Affects Versions: ODF 1.2 CD 05
>            Reporter: Robert Weir 
>             Fix For: ODF-Next
>
>
> Copied from office-comment list
> Original author: "Leonard Mada" <discoleo@gmx.net> 
> Original date: 23 Oct 2010 14:39:17 -0000
> Original URL: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/201010/msg00003.html

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