- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:28:56 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Devi Web Development wrote: > > Not an interoperability issue? One of the main benefits of HTML has been > it's device-independence. Ideally, a page should look and act the same > in every browser on every platform. Frankly, I don't see an application > for using user-selected text, but if a script requests the selected > text, it should be clear what the script is getting. ...and it is -- the script will get whatever the user selected. But different platforms have different conventions (e.g. on X the selection will be cleared if another selection is made in another application) and it is not our place to dictate UI. It doesn't make any difference to well-written applications what the conventions are. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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