- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:49:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Greg Kilwein wrote: > > > > > > The second situation is an application that would like to highlight > > > text in a text box or textarea for the purposes of a spell check, > > > thesaurus, or search-and-replace operation. > > > > In this case you want more of a highlighting API than a selecting API, > > though, right? > > Yes. If it were possible, highlighting could be accomplished by styling > a portion of the text in the textbox or textarea, which gets into the > realm of the rich text box. I think we should punt on this for now, since the browser vendors have been so slow at implementing Web Forms 2 -- no point getting so far ahead of them that they can't even fathom doing everything the spec says. I expect what we'll eventually do is introduce an API to do context- sensitive styling of textarea contents, so you can do things like source code syntax highlighting. This would also take care of your use case. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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