Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent

Yes.  I couldn’t find a publicly available documentation for it.  We need to figure out whether there is any compatibility concerns for making them (anchor/focus and base/extent) behave the same if we’re to remove it in WebKit.

- R. Niwa

On Aug 6, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com> wrote:

> I don’t understand the difference. setBaseAndExtent would then set all 4 of these properties of selection? Do you have a definition to use for this?
>  
> From: Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rniwa@apple.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:43 PM
> To: James M. Greene
> Cc: Ben Peters; public-webapps
> Subject: Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
>  
> Focus and anchor are different concepts from base and extent. While the former always coincide with start and end, base and extent may be different from those two.
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> In particular, when a user selects text by double clicking on a word, base and extent stays at where the user had clicked while focus and anchor will extend to the beginning and the end of the word like start and end.
> 
> - R. Niwa
> 
> On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, James M. Greene <james.m.greene@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`?
> 
> Sincerely,
>     James Greene
>     Sent from my [smart?]phone
> 
> On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, "Ben Peters" <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this?
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> Proposed text, based on the text for collapse():
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> void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset);
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> The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range.
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> From: Ben Peters 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM
> To: Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org
> Subject: RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
>  
> I have filed a bug to track this issue [1].
>  
> Ben
>  
> [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831
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>  
> From: Ben Peters [mailto:Ben.Peters@microsoft.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM
> To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org
> Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
>  
> I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend?
>  
> Ben
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> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse