[whatwg] Control over selection direction

[Marijn Haverbeke]

> Isn't this use case addressed better by being able to clone a Selection and
> set it later?  Such feature will also let you emulate selection's behavior
> before you modify the actual selection, and seems to serve other use cases
> as well.

I'm probably misunderstanding you. How would the browser know how to
restore the cloned selection after the content of the input has
changed?