[whatwg] DOM Range: redefining behavior under DOM mutation

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
>> So browsers must be special-casing how execCommand() affects
>> selections somehow
>
> That's certainly what Gecko is doing, yes.

Thanks for the info.  In the end, I managed to define a reasonably
clean way of getting good enough results:

http://aryeh.name/gitweb.cgi?p=editcommands;a=blob_plain;f=editcommands.html;hb=d2481d02#preserving-ranges

There are some cases where its behavior is slightly unexpected, in
terms of putting the ends of the selection inside vs. outside
elements, but it's good enough for now.