On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <eh...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > Say you had "hello world" and "world" is deleted by an user. When the > > user undoes the deletion, WebKit selects "world" whereas Firefox and > > Internet Explorer do not select "world". WebKit's behavior matches > > Mac's NSTextView and we probably would like to keep the current > > behavior. > > This confuses me. I think that WebKit's behavior doesn't make a lot of > sense (at least in every case). For example, when Ctrl+Backspacing after a > word. But moreover, why is this relevant to the question of whether/how we > should restore a selection after undoing an operation? > WebKit's trying to match Mac's NSTextView here. This is relevant because unapplying / reapplying an automatic transaction should behave like unapplying / reapplying native editing actions. - Ryosuke
