Re: [w3c/editing] [Input Events] Word deletion (#125)

I tried to figure out how to define deleteContent as opposed to deleteLine and deleteWord. At frist I thought maybe saying the user wants to delete a character. But it may actually be at the start of a block element, so that deleteContentBackward would indicate a wish to merge paragraphs. Or it may be after a table, in which case it may mean to wish to delete the entire table. So I added to the description "this intention is not covered by another inputType" (and such other inputTypes would be deleteLine/deleteWord). But I'm not sure that is the best possible way of formulating it.

This hasn't been talked about, but what makes out a word or a line can be difficult to figure out. So probably it would be a good idea to have the target range point to what the the browser thinks is a line or a word in the given direction. Then the author can decide whether to go with the browser's idea of a word/line or whether to define his/her own.



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