[whatwg] Control over selection direction

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <ryosuke.niwa at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Marijn Haverbeke <marijnh at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> > This sounds good to me.  I used the term "forwards" and "backwards"
>> > for the DOM Range spec, which I think make more sense.  I also think
>> > selectionDirection is a better property name, as Ojan suggests.
>>
>> Coincidentally, that was exactly what I was going to propose at first,
>> but then I found the "top"/"bottom" thing made the concepts slightly
>> easier to explain ("where is the anchor" vs "if it goes in this
>> direction, that means the anchor is ...").
>>
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> I don't like "top"/"bottom" because it seems to imply certain visual
> orientation. (e.g. I think RTL text in vertical writing mode flows bottom
> up).  To make terms agnostic of text direction and writing mode, I'd prefer
> "forwards" / "backwards".
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> - Ryosuke
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