Copy-paste of table rows does not work correctly

[IBM_RQM]

Scenario 1 -

1. Create a table with 3 rows and 5 columns.
2. Enter some data in each row and column.
3. Add 2 more rows to the table.
4. Select row 1 & 2, copy the text using ctrl+c.
5. Now Select row 4 & 5 and paste the text using ctrl+v.

Actual Result: Row 4 & 5, will get merged as single row and Row 1 & 2 will be get pasted in a single row

Expected Result: The text in row 1 & 2 should be get copied to row 4 & 5 similar to what we see in ms-word

Scenario 2 -

1. Perform the first 4 steps as mentioned in scenario 1
2. Put the cursor in row 4 column 1
3. Press ctrl+v to paste the text

Actual Result: Row 1 & 2 will be get copied in row 4 column 1.

Expected Result: The text in row 1 & 2 should be get copied to row 4 & 5 similar to what we see in ms-word

Scenario 3 -

1. Perform the first 3 steps as mentioned in scenario 1
2. Select any single cell (Say Row 1 column 1)
3. Put the cursor in row 4 column 1
4. Press ctrl+v to paste the text

Actual Result: The text in the selected column will be get pasted in row 4 column 1 along with column border.

Expected result: Only the text in a column should be pasted and not the column border

[Jakub Ś]

The above scenarios were made for Firefox but problem also exists in other browsers. Here are my findings:

Scenario 1 -
IE - It is not possible to paste content when multiple cells are selected in IE (no matter whether they are empty or not).
Firefox - Reproducible from CKEditor 3.1
Webkit - Reproducible from CKEditor 3.1 but two empty selected rows (4 and 5) are replaced with one created from pasted content (rows 1 and 2)
Opera - Contents are pasted as text into first cell selected. Already reported in #7846

Scenario 2 -
IE - Reproducible from CKEditor 3.0
Firefox - Reproducible from CKEditor 3.0
Webkit - Reproducible from CKEditor 3.0
Opera - Contents are pasted as text into first cell selected. Already reported in #7846

Scenario 3 -
IE, Firefox, Webkit - If you select only text it will work. If you select whole cell it will be pasted as new inner table. I know that this is not what MS Word does but IMO this is quite valid behaviour - you select text you get text, you select cell you get inner table. Any comments here anyone?
Opera - Because of pasting problems mentioned in #7846, this works as described in TC. As mentioned earlier I'm not sure if this should not work as in other browsers.

[Jakub Ś]

NOTE: bug reported by @satya #8588, at least in my opinion, suggests that IE, Webkit and Firefox work actually ok in scenario 3.

Taking the above behaviour into account, scenario 2 is also correct (except for Opera).

Again taking the above into account, scenario 1 for Firefox is correct but there are problems in Opera, IE and Webkit. For the last two probably separate tickets should be reported.

[Satya Minnekanti]

adding myself to cc on this ticket