- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:27:51 +0200
- To: Julie Parent <jparent@gmail.com>, Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>
- CC: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 28/05/2014 01:39 , Julie Parent wrote:
> The discussion of which minimal default handling to include with
> contenteditable="minimal" makes me wonder if contentEditable="minimal"
> is necessary at all. It quickly becomes a can of worms of *which*
> default handling should be included, and it seems likely to not satisfy
> every use case no matter which decisions are made. However, "minimal"
> is proposed as a building block because currently, disabling all default
> functionality of contentEditable="true" is difficult/impossible. But
> with CommandEvents, shouldn't contentEditable="minimal" be equivalent to:
>
> // Let editRegion be <div contentEditable id='editRegion'>
>
> var editRegion = document.getElementById("editRegion");
> editRegion.addEventListener("command", handleCommand);
> function handleCommand(evt){
> evt.preventDefault();
> }
>
> No default actions would be taken, but selection events would still fire
> and be handled. There would be no ambiguity. If implementing
> contentEditable="minimal" on top of CommandEvents could just be a few
> lines of code, why complicate things by spec'ing another property?
I like the simplicity of this approach, but I have some concerns.
As Travis points out, this implies that all events have to be
cancellable in this context. This can lead to problems (like we had with
mutations), it can also have performance implications.
Another aspect that may be problematic is the case of UAs that provide a
UI (like Safari Mobile) whenever they see contentEditable. I was hoping
that contentEditable=minimal would serve as a sanity flag not to include
that. In the above it's not possible.
I am not sure that we can have this work properly without specifying the
default behaviour, which as we all know is a terrible mess. If you don't
have reliable default behaviour, can you really rely on the browser to
DTRT for the cases you don't wish to handle? Won't you end up having to
use a library anyway?
Again, I'm all for the simplicity; I'm just worried about the snoring
dragon.
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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
Received on Friday, 6 June 2014 13:28:06 UTC