Re: [Selection] Should selection.getRangeAt return a clone or a reference?

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

Received on Tuesday, 13 January 2015 12:22:14 UTC