- From: Ryan Johnson <ryan@kiwi3.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:10:21 -0700
This might have already been covered, but I can't get a sense from the archives, so I thought I would contribute my wishlist for what I would like to be able to do with a textarea element... 1) Control the cursor position via scripting. 2) Easily preform a regex search, line search, or character search (i.e. identify patterns, lines or individual characters), to get the position of elements. 3) Extensible syntax highlighting (coloring). I am aware that a ton of code editors don't even do this well. The ability to load a syntax definition file and have it color a block of code would do wonders for making the web a more friendly place to script. 4) TABS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know how this would affect tabbing between forms, but in my opinion, the accessibility problem created by not being able to tab out of a text area is far far far better than not being able to make a tab character unless you cut and paste it in. The other thing I was curious about, is if there is some way, in between drafts of the specs to see wish lists or ideas? It's kind of hard to read all of the archives, and I imagine the list will grow quite rapidly in the future... Just My two cents - Ryan
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