<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span>If I have a text selection in an iframe and select text or click on any
element in the parent document the browsers behave differently<br>
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Fabian Jakobs wrote:<br>> What is the desired behavior in this case?<br><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Hickson</b> <<a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">ian@hixie.ch
</a>> wrote:</span><br>>It depends on the platform's conventions. It's not really an interoperability issue as far as I can tell.</div><br>Not an interoperability issue? One of the main benefits of HTML has been it's device-independence. Ideally, a page should look and act the same in every browser on every platform. Frankly, I don't see an application for using user-selected text, but if a script requests the selected text, it should be clear what the script is getting.
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