- From: Tim Down <timdown@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:05:02 +0000
On 28 January 2011 16:53, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Aryeh Gregor > <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bw3c at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> 2) Have WebKit or Opera run into any websites that depend on being >> able to use multiple Ranges per Selection? >> > > As far as I know, there is no bug filed against this, which seems to imply > that we haven't had significant issues. > > 3) Are WebKit or Opera planning to add support for multiple Ranges per >> Selection? ?(I'd be interested in IE too, clearly, but they don't read >> this list.) >> > > Not anytime soon as far as I'm concerned. We do have a comment in the code > indicating there had been a plan, but I don't think anyone is actively > working on it. ?Because we haven't had much complaints from users and > developers and supporting it requires so much work, I personally think it's > not worth the effort. At the risk of misusing this platform, I would venture that WebKit has more pressing issues with Selections (for example, not being able to place the caret at the start of a text node). Tim
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