Unless we get clear buy-in from other browsers to support this I would vote for removing this complexity out of Gecko.
- jst On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Frederik Braun <fbr...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 19.12.2016 17:19, glazou wrote: > > Le jeudi 15 décembre 2016 10:47:28 UTC+1, masayuki nakano a écrit : > > > >> So, it might be better to stop supporting multiple selection only in > >> editor if the feature is not so loved by users. > > > > We were already discussing this issue at Netscape 15 years ago but could > not come up with a good solution at that time. Thanks for bringing it back, > this could be the right time to finally solve it. > > > > Some existing use cases: > > > > 1. this is absolutely needed for table cell selection. Everyone > extensively using tables uses multiple selection at some point. > > > > I'm generally all for removing complexity and I hate to be a spoilsport. > But table cell selection is pretty useful (e.g., a full row, a full > column and the possibility of removing a few here and there) > > > > 2. Microsoft Word on all platforms and in general all commercial > Whysiwyg Text editors allow multiple selection. > > > > 3. multiple selection is really cool if you think of images representing > videoframes you select to edit/crop a video. > > > > 4. "search a text" often ends with a multiple selection of all > occurrences of the pattern in the document > > > > On another hand, I think selection would benefit from a boolean > attribute saying if the rendering engine allows or not multiple selection > and if it does not, having shortcut mechanisms allowing to get rid of the > onmipresent and painful getRangeAt(0). We do quite equivalent things when > the selection is collapsed. > > > > </Daniel> > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
