- From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:32:18 -0500
- To: "public-editing-tf@w3.org" <public-editing-tf@w3.org>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 06:06:15PM +0200, Johannes Wilm wrote: > Discussing the purpose of this taskforce with those who have been involved > in it for a considerable amount of time and are making great progress is a > bit like going into a shoe factory and trying the people there that shoes > aren't really needed or that it would be much better if they would produce > cars, or some such thing. My purpose isn't to direct you, or to denigrate your work, but to gauge how our understandings and our goals align or diverge. The documentation is a bit thin, so I have questions. For example, just what is meant by "caret"? I have not found where caret is defined, but I have surmised that you mean the mark that indicates the insertion & deletion points---i.e., what I call a cursor. The caret is drawn by the browser. What if I would like for my own JavaScript to draw the caret? Furthermore, what if I would like to indicate the insertion & deletion points separately when they separate because of line wrapping, read-only or floating content? I have a couple of questions, too, about the "Legal Caret Positions" (http://w3c.github.io/editing/contentEditableEvents.html#dfn-legal-caret -positions). Am I mistaken, or is there no legal caret position at the place indicated by | in the following HTML? <p>paragraph 1</p> | <p>paragraph 2</p> There are, however, legal caret positions at the places indicated by the two |'s in the next HTML, right? <p>paragraph 1|</p> <p>|paragraph 2</p> I have use for all three caret positions, <p>paragraph 1|</p> | <p>|paragraph 2</p> Dave -- David Young dyoung@pobox.com Urbana, IL (217) 721-9981
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