On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Marijn Haverbeke <mari...@gmail.com>wrote: > > That would work for me, however, it'd be backwards-incompatible -- not > in a critical way, but probably enough to break a few pieces of code. > Also, I assume there is a reason that textarea/textinput content is > not 'officially' part of the DOM, and that separate > selection-management functionality has been implemented for it. This > might be a *much* bigger can of worms than the simple change I > proposed.
If you accept that other selection APIs can't be used in textarea / input, then why would you expect your property/method to specify direction can be? Specifically that this direction property/method works for textarea / input and other properties/method doesn't is very inconsistent, and very unlikely to be adopted by browser vendors. (I for one will not support such an interface if proposed in the WebKit community). - Ryosuke
