[whatwg] selection.modify behavior across platforms

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan at mozilla.com> wrote:
> This is what Gecko does in Firefox 4.  Webkit, however, implements the
> "non-space-eating" approach on all platforms.  I think this is an advantage,
> because it means that the consumers of the API can rely on the behavior of
> the API without having to resort to User-Agent sniffing.  So, I modified the
> behavior of Gecko today[1] to match that of Webkit (i.e., not eating spaces
> between words).
>
> I wanted to see what others think about this issue.  Feedback is most
> welcome.

What are the use-cases for this API if it doesn't match platform
conventions?  Actually, for that matter, what are the use-cases
altogether?  I've seen some author interest, but I'm not clear on what
it's used for.  It's hard to say what the expected behavior should be
without use-cases.