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

> On Jan 13, 2015, at 4:21 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.)

Indeed, someone who feel strongly about this feature (multi-range selection) should feel a new issue.

- R. Niwa

Received on Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:07:09 UTC