- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:21:45 -0500
- To: chaals@yandex-team.ru, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 1/13/15 6:54 AM, chaals@yandex-team.ru wrote: > 13.01.2015, 05:31, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>: >> On 1/12/15 1:56 PM, Olivier Forget wrote: >>> Unfortunately >>> multiple range selections are not a "nice to have". All "real" editors >>> (MS Word, Google Docs, etc..) support selecting multiple ranges >> Precisely. This is why Gecko ended up supporting it: it was needed for >> the editor that was part of the Mozilla suite back in the day.... >> >> Of course I've made this point before; it just got ignored. :( > :( > > And yeah, painful as it may be to implement in the browser, I suspect in the long run it is the right answer. If the `plan of record` is to not explicitly address selecting multiple ranges in the first version of the spec, perhaps a new issue should be created (with an `enhancement` tag). (I didn't notice such an Issue in <https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue> and will gladly create one if folks confirm that is the consensus and expectation.) -Thanks, ArtB
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