On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:52 +0200, Xiaomei Ji <x...@chromium.org>
wrote:
Maybe I should propose Document.wordFromPoint() which directly
returns the word under the mouse (and handles both the DOM node and
non-DOM form control nodes).
It hides the information about the node and should be a useful API.
Don't you need at least some context information as well besides
just the word? Although I suppose you can get that using a
combination of elementFromPoint and wordFromPoint...
I think we should consider changing caretRangeFromPoint's return type,
if it's not too late. It's useful to get the caret position inside a
text form control, beyond the immediate use case.
Instead of returning a Range, caretRangeFromPoint could return an
object like this:
interface CaretPosition {
readonly attribute Node containingNode;
readonly attribute int offset;
readonly attribute DOMString offsetKind; // "document" or "control"
}
It could have a convenience method for converting a Range too, if
that's really needed (which would give null or something for a control
position).
Regards,
Maciej