[html5] r1349 - /

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Author: ianh
Date: 2008-03-06 14:43:52 -0800 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008)
New Revision: 1349

Modified:
   index
   source
Log:
[] (0) Allow browsers to work around annoying authors who try to prevent copy/paste.

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2008-03-05 20:00:00 UTC (rev 1348)
+++ index	2008-03-06 22:43:52 UTC (rev 1349)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
    <h1 id=html-5>HTML 5</h1>
 
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=working>Working Draft — 5 March 2008</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=working>Working Draft — 6 March 2008</h2>
 
    <p>You can take part in this work. <a
     href="http://www.whatwg.org/mailing-list">Join the working group's
@@ -35415,6 +35415,16 @@
    <dfn id=text-field title="text field selection">text field
    selections</dfn>.
 
+  <p>User agents may selectively ignore attempts to use the API to adjust the
+   selection made after the user has modified the selection. For example, if
+   the user has just selected part of a word, the user agent could ignore
+   attempts to use the API call to immediately unselect the selection
+   altogether, but could allow attempts to change the selection to select the
+   entire word.
+
+  <p>User agents may also allow the user to create selections that are not
+   exposed to the API.
+
   <p>The <code><a href="#datagrid0">datagrid</a></code> and
    <code>select</code> elements also have selections, indicating which items
    have been picked by the user. These are not discussed in this section.

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2008-03-05 20:00:00 UTC (rev 1348)
+++ source	2008-03-06 22:43:52 UTC (rev 1349)
@@ -32826,6 +32826,16 @@
   independent selection. These are the <dfn title="text field
   selection">text field selections</dfn>.</p>
 
+  <p>User agents may selectively ignore attempts to use the API to
+  adjust the selection made after the user has modified the
+  selection. For example, if the user has just selected part of a
+  word, the user agent could ignore attempts to use the API call to
+  immediately unselect the selection altogether, but could allow
+  attempts to change the selection to select the entire word.</p>
+
+  <p>User agents may also allow the user to create selections that are
+  not exposed to the API.</p>
+
   <p>The <code>datagrid</code> and <code>select</code> elements also
   have selections, indicating which items have been picked by the
   user. These are not discussed in this section.</p>