[whatwg] Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText

[David Young]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:29:41AM -0700, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> In this case, we have an API, namely document.execCommand, supported by two
> major browser engines (for years) that provides more or less the same
> functionality as the proposed API.

I'm curious what advantages document.execCommand() has over the
customary DOM API for adding/deleting/moving nodes?

Dave

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