Switching Clank to use direction-based selection granularity strategy and adding a chrome flag.

content/renderer/render_view_impl.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "content/renderer/render_view_impl.h"
 
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <cmath>
 
 #include "base/auto_reset.h"
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     webview()->setMainFrame(main_render_frame_->GetWebFrame());
   }
   main_render_frame_->Initialize();
 
   if (switches::IsTouchDragDropEnabled())
     webview()->settings()->setTouchDragDropEnabled(true);
 
   if (switches::IsTouchEditingEnabled())
     webview()->settings()->setTouchEditingEnabled(true);
 
+#if defined(OS_ANDROID)
+  WebSettings::SelectionStrategyType selection_strategy_default =
+      WebSettings::SelectionStrategyType::Direction;
+#else
+  WebSettings::SelectionStrategyType selection_strategy_default =
+      WebSettings::SelectionStrategyType::Character;
+#endif
+
+  WebSettings::SelectionStrategyType selection_strategy =
+      selection_strategy_default;
+  const std::string selection_strategy_str =
+      base::CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess()->GetSwitchValueASCII(
+          switches::kTouchTextSelectionStrategy);
+  if (selection_strategy_str == "character")
+    selection_strategy = WebSettings::SelectionStrategyType::Character;
+  else if (selection_strategy_str == "direction")
+    selection_strategy = WebSettings::SelectionStrategyType::Direction;
+  webview()->settings()->setSelectionStrategy(selection_strategy);
+
   if (!params.frame_name.empty())
     webview()->mainFrame()->setName(params.frame_name);
 
   // TODO(davidben): Move this state from Blink into content.
   if (params.window_was_created_with_opener)
     webview()->setOpenedByDOM();
 
   OnSetRendererPrefs(params.renderer_preferences);
 
   ApplyBlinkSettings(command_line, webview()->settings());
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     std::vector<gfx::Size> sizes;
     ConvertToFaviconSizes(icon_urls[i].sizes(), &sizes);
     if (!url.isEmpty())
       urls.push_back(
           FaviconURL(url, ToFaviconType(icon_urls[i].iconType()), sizes));
   }
   SendUpdateFaviconURL(urls);
 }
 
 }  // namespace content