[whatwg] Submitting contentEditable Content In A Form -- also in SVG and audio contexts

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, David Dailey wrote:
>
> I don't know if this matters or not, but at some point in time, other 
> standards than HTML like <svg> or <audio> might receive sensible 
> proposals to allow other media (than just text) to be contentEditable.
> 
> Just as it makes sense to have built in text editors (imagine the 
> spectrum ranging from <textarea> to rich web content editors like in 
> Google+ and beyond) in a spec that deals with text (as in HyperText ML 
> handling such routine things as word-wrap, backspace, delete, select, 
> copy, paste etc.), so might it make sense to have a default 
> (cross-browser-consistent) generic drawing pad that produces structured 
> graphical objects (and not just silly pixelbits) built into a graphical 
> element or a default (cross-browser-consistent) sound studio built into 
> audio objects. The GUI interfaces for these things have been pretty 
> consistent since MacDraw in 1984 and SoundEdit in 1986 so any patents 
> with the oft-replicated interface would have expired by now.
> 
> I'm not saying that coherent proposals that meet the acceptance of the 
> standards community for such will emerge in the next few years, but at 
> some time, the logic for them is likely to eventually overcome the 
> resistance. And, in the meantime, it might make sense to make sure that 
> what is done with the stuff in HTML is consistent with the broader 
> spectrum of possible use cases that will emerge in the future.

That seems reasonable in general. Did you have anything specific in mind 
that isn't consistent in this way?

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