RE: User Intentions Explainer (was: List of Intentions)

I think what I'm hearing in this conversation about the shape of a new contentEditable is really that a simple "minimal" is not going to work. Instead, having something like a delimited list will satisfy more people. See the bug on GitHub [1] for more details.

https://github.com/w3c/editing-explainer/issues/4 

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Johannes Wilm <johannes@fiduswriter.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Frederico Knabben <f.knabben@cksource.com>
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>> IMHO, the following are the "minimal" features that it should provide:
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>> - Selection: UI (e.g. caret), creation (e.g. mouse) and modifications
>> (e.g. arrows)
>> - Focus (probably part of Selection, but it's so hard to make it right
>> that I'm listing it here to not stay forgotten)
>> - Input Text (typing)
>> - Insert New Line
>> - Delete / Backspace
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> If we include deletion/backspace and input text, that will then also mean
> merging of paragraphs (and other nodes) when the caret is at the beginning
> of a second paragraph and the backspace key is being hit? Last I checked
> that was broken for example in Safari/Chrome (converting the HTML inside the
> two merged paragraphs from <span style=""> into a mix of <font>-tags and
> other outdated things).
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> To me it's fine if inputting text/backspace is being included, as long as
> browser makers believe they will have the time and resources to fix the
> actual text editing part. That to me seems to be the most broken thing about
> the whole thing currently.
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> If they on the other hand say they have no time for any of this (as not
> having fixed bugs in this area for some years might indicate) I would be OK
> with them leaving the input/deletion/undo history part out.
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> --
> Johannes Wilm
> Fidus Writer
> http://www.fiduswriter.org

Received on Friday, 19 September 2014 20:58:51 UTC