[whatwg] Fixing undo on the Web - UndoManager and Transaction

Fri Aug 5 09:57:52 PDT 2011

On Aug 4, 2011 5:31 PM, "Ryosuke Niwa" <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com>
wrote:
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>> On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:40:27 +0200, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org>
wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com>
wrote:
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>>>> If they are identical I think it is even more clear we should remove
the
>>>> one on Document as it's redundant :-)
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>>>
>>> Mn... but I think it's more convenient to be able to access undoManager
from document.  Also, what if there were no body?  undoManager needs to
exist in such cases as well (e.g. designMode).
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>>
>> <body> is not the root element. And if there is no root element there is
nothing visible on the screen so I am not sure it matters if things are lost
in that case. That is such an edge case and not really worth having an
additional member on Document for.
>
>
> Not sure.  This happens all the time in design mode.  We've had plenty of
crash reports that only reproduce when there are no document element.
>
> It might also be hard to implement such a behavior in WebKit at least
because documents / frames have the undo stack managed by OS X or embedders
and having to fake non-existence of the undo stack might be tricky.

Why treat documentElement specially here? Just make the documentElement
*not* have a undoManager by default and have it just use it's ancestor's,
just like all other elements.

The document is an ancestor of the documentElement after all.

/ Jonas