- From: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:05:30 -0700
- To: Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Ted O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com>, Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>, Yoshifumi Inoue <yosin@chromium.org>, Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>, Johannes Wilm <johannes@fiduswriter.com>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
On Apr 11, 2014, at 7:09 AM, Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com> wrote: > From: Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rniwa@apple.com] > >> Given defining innerText is completely outside the scope of the selection API specification, we might need to defer this part to a level 2 specification since the only alternative is to wait for someone to write a innerText spec. > > I don't know all the history here, but this bug and proto-spec seems relevant: > > - https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13145 > - https://web.archive.org/web/20121127212525/http://aryeh.name/spec/innertext/innertext.html > > The work already done on this might make including innerText-dependent features more feasible. Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, we might need to take a slightly different approach more based on the CSS box tree because whitespace collapsing, etc... are defined in CSS2.1 and CSS level 3 specifications. - R. Niwa
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