[whatwg] Normalization of user selections
Ryosuke Niwa
rniwa at webkit.org
Thu Jun 16 12:09:51 PDT 2011
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Aryeh Gregor <AryehGregor at gmail.com>wrote:
> For instance, could we just say that empty inline
> elements can have the cursor inside them, so foo{}<b></b>bar and
> foo<b></b>{}bar both normalize to foo<b>{}</b>bar? That would solve
> the specific bug.
>
What if we had foo<b></b><i></i>bar?
Assuming we don't match WebKit/Opera here, though, does everyone agree
> we should still place constraints on what selections can be generated
> by *user* actions?
Yes, I think all selection modified by user should be normalized by default.
I'm talking more about programmatically set selection. I think we'll need
to preserve programmatically set selection ranges instead of always storing
normalized ranges.
- Ryosuke
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