- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:48:15 -0700
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:35 AM, David Young <dyoung at pobox.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:55:04AM +0300, Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Young <dyoung at pobox.com> wrote: >> > I'm curious what advantages document.execCommand() has over the >> > customary DOM API for adding/deleting/moving nodes? >> >> execCommand() does vastly more complicated things than the DOM APIs. >> See the spec for details: >> >> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/editing/raw-file/tip/editing.html > > I have seen this spec before. ?It seems to have something to do > with creating a word processor-like environment in the browser, > something that I am acutely interested in, but there isn't much > introduction/justification to it. ?Is there an executive summary of the > editing API somewhere? Note: that spec isn't *creating* anything like that, it's just documenting the *existing* execCommand() API that all browsers implement, but inconsistently and incompatibly. ~TJ
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