On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bw3c at gmail.com> > wrote: > If we just have a boolean, it's unambiguous: the properties are all > logically separate. We don't want to emulate the DOM selection API, > IMO -- it's ridiculously complex for minimal functionality gain, even > accounting for the fact that it has to deal with nodes as well as > offsets. Save authors the pain, if they only have to deal with text > fields. > I agree. If we could change the DOM apis to just have start/end use a bool/enum for the direction it would certainly be simpler for web developers than what we have today. OjanReceived on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 13:42:42 UTC
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