[whatwg] Making selectionDirection platform-independent

Bjartur Thorlacius svartman95 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 10:26:29 PDT 2011


On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:14:39 -0000, Philip Rogers <pdr at google.com> wrote:

" It looks like editors using a textarea (such as codemirror) are  
currently working around this by not drawing a cursor when there is a  
selection."

In ignorance of the specificatory problem you describe, this seems sane  
enough to me. Whether to draw or not to draw a curser when there's a  
selection should of course be up to users. I'll refrain from thinking  
about the behaviour of multiple selections.


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