> On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote: > > >> 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. Filed https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/41 <https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/41> to track this. - R. Niwa
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