- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 09:23:22 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com>, Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>, public-editing-tf <public-editing-tf@w3.org>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
On 15/08/2015 06:19, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote: >> We've been recently exploring ways to select bidirectional text and content that uses new CSS layout modes such as flex box in visually contagious manner. >> >> Because visually contagious range of content may not be contagious in DOM order, doing so involves creating a disjoint multi-range selection. There has been quite a bit of discussion about how we can better expose that to the Web since the current model of exposing a list of Range objects doesn't seem to be working well. >> >> However, another important question I have is how copying such a selected content work? Do we just stitch together disjoint content? But that may result in the content being pasted in completely different order. > > I copied www-international. Somewhat curious if this problem has been > studied before. It does seem like you would have to add/remove > formatting code points as the context where you paste may be different > from the context where you copied from. what's the use case driving this, and where are the requirements coming from? i ask because i'm inclined to think that the circumstances in which this would a produce useful results, given the way it carves up the actual content, are quite, perhaps extremely, limited. ri
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