Re: Copying multi-range selection

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.


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Received on Saturday, 15 August 2015 05:20:17 UTC