After playing with selection in various Mac OSX apps and reading the earlier
discussion on this list, I agree that the spec does the best possible
cross-platform implementation after all.
I apologize for bringing this back up, and thank you for your responses.
Philip
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:26
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> No. The property is platform dependent. It's just that UAs on Windows and
> Linux don't use "none" in most cases.
Do they ever use it?
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:14:39 -, Philip Rogers wrote:
" It looks like editors using a textarea (such as codemirror) are
currently working around this by not drawing a cursor when there is a
selection."
In ignorance of the specificatory problem you describe, this seems sane
enough to m
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Philip Rogers wrote:
>
>> The spec (
>>
>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-textarea/input-selectiondirection
>> )
>> currently allows for platform-specific differences in selectionDirec
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Philip Rogers wrote:
> The spec (
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-textarea/input-selectiondirection
> )
> currently allows for platform-specific differences in selectionDirection
> that limit its usefulness. Tightening the requirements t
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Philip Rogers wrote:
>
> Are there arguments against making selectionDirection explicitly
> "forward" or "backward" if the user modifies the selection, regardless
> of platform?
It wouldn't match the platform on platforms that don't do that.
--
Ian Hickson U
The spec (
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-textarea/input-selectiondirection)
currently allows for platform-specific differences in selectionDirection
that limit its usefulness. Tightening the requirements to be
platform-independent will allow selectionDirection to be used fo
