On 27/05/2014 01:47 , Ben Peters wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Robin Berjon
On 26/05/2014 05:43 , Norbert Lindenberg wrote:
Were any speakers of bidirectional languages in the room when
this was discussed?
I don't know what languages the others speak. That said, my
recollection was that this was presented along the lines of "we've
had regular requests to support selecting text in geometric rather
than logical orders".
I have also heard these requests from the bi-directional experts here
at Microsoft. A single, unbroken selection is what we're told users
want, and multi-selection makes this possible.
Thinking about this a little bit more: I don't imagine that the
Selection API should prescribe the UI that browsers choose to support in
order to select bidi text, on the contrary they should be allowed to
innovate, experiment, follow various platform conventions, etc. But if
we don't support multi-range selection, then only one model is possible
which precludes unbroken selections.
I think that this strongly pushes in the direction of supporting
multiple ranges.
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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
