- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:28:15 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Dan Gisolfi wrote: > > On behalf of the Open Cooperative Web Framework Project ( > http://opencoweb.org), with respect to the HTML Editing APIs > specification (http://aryeh.name/spec/editing/editing.html), it would > seem the current version of the spec lacks APIs for getting / setting > the caret position. > > An example scenario for such a requirement (addition of such methods) > would be the following: When developing an cooperative web enabled > rich-text-editor, whereby multiple simultaneous users can co-author > shared content, the editor must be able to allow each participant to > get/set caret/cursor position in order to reflect the multiple positions > of each active author in a cooperative web session. Surely all but the local one would not be real carets? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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