- From: Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo <amla70@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:17:58 +0200
2011/8/19 Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 at gmail.com> > ?ann fim 18.?g? 2011 21:05, skrifa?i Alfonso Mart?nez de Lizarrondo: > > Now if someone had some bright idea to enable finding in the hidden text >> that would be perfect, but the view source workaround is good enough for >> the >> moment. >> >> That seems to be of general utility. I recommend sending feature request > to implementors. > > > That's just CSS and I'm not sure if it should be present in this spec, but >> on the other side it's clear that besides the .execCommand a good Editing >> spec should state or hint about other features that the browsers must >> implement to behave properly (like showing the caret so the user knows >> where >> he's typing, enable the user to select parts of the content,...). These >> might look trivial, but iOS5 seems to be the first mobile browser that >> will >> behave good enough so that both CKEditor and TinyMCE will enable the >> support >> for it (check the comments in >> http://code.google.com/p/**android/issues/detail?id=8253<http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8253>about the Android >> browser) >> > As long as overspecification is avoided (care must be taken to allow e.g. > caret(s) to be hidden when another top-level window is focused, etc). > > > A browser that provides a perfect implementation of all the execCommands >> but >> doesn't allow the user to type or select is worthless for editing. >> > Then requiring implementations to allow users to select and replace any > substring consisting of a sequence of whole characters (i.e. characters > represented by a single glyph) and insert text of their own at any character > boundaries seems reasonable. I don't see why mandating carets is needed. > Should users not be allowed to edit editable content using structural and/or > aural editors? > If the word "caret" is a problem you can suggest anything else to satisfy you, as I stated the goal is that the user is able to easily change the contents of the editable element, I'm not worried about the exact wording.
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