On Fri, 6 May 2011, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > On Windows, sure, it should default to "forward" just like the spec > > says. But on Mac, it should default to "none", since otherwise the > > behaviour is inconsistent with the platform selection behaviour. > > Why is it inconsistent? DOM Selection works the same way in WebKit. > The only case you get non-directional selection in WebKit is if a user > set selection by mouse.
It's inconsistent with how selections work on Mac. Open TextEdit, type in the string "aouiaoueioethaoieiaoe", press Command+F, type "tha", hit Enter, and check to see what direction the selection is. It's not a forward selection, it's a default non-directional selection. IMHO anything in the DOM API that is defaulting newly created selections to "'forward' is buggy, since that doesn't match the platform. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'