[whatwg] Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
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> Why are we adding this new API? WebKit already supports
> 
> document.execCommand('InsertText', false, "new selected text");

That's for contenteditable regions, right?

The new API is for <input> and <textarea>. Also, it's not limited to 
replacing the selected text, it can be any region.

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