Re: propose an API to return Range in etc. form control nodes (similar functionality as document.caretRangeFromPoint)</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=public-webapps@w3.org&q=from:%22Xiaomei+Ji%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Xiaomei Ji</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=public-webapps@w3.org&q=date:20091016" rel="nofollow">Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:28:22 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre>(sorry for the spam, send last time using the wrong 'from' email address to the public mailing lists)</pre><pre> Hi Maciej: Thanks for your comments. I have a question about "interface CaretPosition": In case of form control node, such as <textarea>, the 'offset' is the character offset within the <textarea> under mouse, 'offsetKind' is "control", what is the value of 'containingNode"? Is it itself or its shadowAncestorNode? Thanks, Xiaomei On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > </pre> </div> <div class="msgButtons margintopdouble"> <ul class="overflow"> <li class="msgButtonItems"><a class="button buttonleft " accesskey="p" href="msg05804.html">Previous message</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="c" href="thrd3.html#05839">View by thread</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="i" href="mail3.html#05839">View by date</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textalignright"><a class="button buttonright " accesskey="n" href="msg05840.html">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <a name="tslice"></a> <div class="tSliceList margintopdouble"> <ul class="icons monospace"> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05767.html">propose an API to return Range in <textarea> etc. ...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05768.html">Re: propose an API to return Range in <textarea&...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Olli Pettay</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05778.html">Re: propose an API to return Range in <texta...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05787.html">Re: propose an API to return Range in <t...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Anne van Kesteren</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05802.html">Re: propose an API to return Range in &...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05805.html">Re: propose an API to return Range...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Maciej Stachowiak</span></li> </ul></li> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05804.html">Re: propose an API to return Range in &...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Maciej Stachowiak</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email tSliceCur"><span class="subject">Re: propose an API to return Range...</span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05840.html">Re: propose an API to return Range...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Maciej Stachowiak</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg05843.html">Re: propose an API to return R...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg06029.html">Re: propose an API to retu...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Anne van Kesteren</span></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg06332.html">Re: propose an API to return Range...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Anne van Kesteren</span></li> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </div> <div class="overflow msgActions margintopdouble"> <div class="msgReply" > <h2> Reply via email to </h2> <form method="POST" action="/mailto.php"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Re: propose an API to return Range in <textarea> etc. form control nodes (similar functionality as document.caretRangeFromPoint)"> <input type="hidden" name="msgid" value="a7aebc750910161027p68bdd363hbb84a173b8382eb4@mail.gmail.com"> <input type="hidden" name="relpath" value="public-webapps@w3.org/msg05839.html"> <input type="submit" value=" Xiaomei Ji "> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="aside" role="complementary"> <div class="logo"> <a href="/"><img src="/logo.png" width=247 height=88 alt="The Mail Archive"></a> </div> <form class="overflow" action="/search" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="l" value="public-webapps@w3.org"> <label class="hidden" for="q">Search the site</label> <input class="submittext" type="text" id="q" name="q" placeholder="Search public-webapps"> <input class="submitbutton" name="submit" type="image" src="/submit.png" alt="Submit"> </form> <div class="nav margintop" id="nav" role="navigation"> <ul class="icons font16"> <li class="icons-home"><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li> <li class="icons-list"><a href="/public-webapps@w3.org/">public-webapps - 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