On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org> wrote: > Because they're two different things. One is about whether a caret appears > before or after a line break, and the other is about to which BiDi-level > caret belongs. Just because Gecko decides to reuse the same flag doesn't > mean we need to expose that to the Web. > > Having a flag that changes the meaning depending on where the CaretPosition > is seems like an unnecessary complexity. > The way I see it, the meaning doesn't change. When the caret is between two characters or elements in the DOM, you can think of it as being attached either to the previous character/element or the following character/element, and the flag tells you which case it is. So far, certain situations involving line-breaks and bidi are the only situations that we know of where it makes a difference to observable behavior. Rob -- "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us." [1 John 1:8-10]
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