Re: [Selection] Should selection.getRangeAt return a clone or a reference?

For what it's worth as a user of the range and selection APIs, updating a
live range is convenient and preferable, but since this has never worked in
all browsers, I never do it and have never recommended it to anyone else.
Therefore if Gecko changes, nothing really changes for me, so I don't care.
Knock yourself out, Mozilla.

Tim

On 6 January 2015 at 22:32, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:

> https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/40
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> Trident (since IE10) and Gecko both return a live Range, which can be
> modified to update selection.  WebKit and Blink both return a clone Range
> so that any changes to the Range doesn't update the selection.
>
> It appears that there is a moderate interest at Mozilla to change Gecko's
> behavior.  Does anyone have a strong opinion about this?
>
> - R. Niwa
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