[whatwg] [editing] Caret Position Access Methods

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Dan Gisolfi wrote:
> Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote on 07/29/2011 12:28:15 PM:
> > >
> > > An example scenario for such a requirement (addition of such 
> > > methods) would be the following: When developing an cooperative web 
> > > enabled rich-text-editor, whereby multiple simultaneous users can 
> > > co-author shared content, the editor must be able to allow each 
> > > participant to get/set caret/cursor position in order to reflect the 
> > > multiple positions of each active author in a cooperative web 
> > > session.
> > 
> > Surely all but the local one would not be real carets?
> 
> Not sure what you mean by "real caret"

By "real caret" I mean a caret that supports all the complexity of the 
system caret: relationship to the system selection, being movable by the 
user, effect on execCommand() APIs, effect on local system focus, etc.


> but the scenario implies that each co-authoring conference(session) 
> participant would have a corresponding cursor (caret) position depicting 
> their associated reference point for edits.

I don't think those are system carets. Why wouldn't using a <span> element 
be sufficient for this?

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