- From: Dan Gisolfi <gisolfi@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:38:35 -0400
Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote on 07/29/2011 12:28:15 PM: > From: Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> > To: Dan Gisolfi/Somers/IBM at IBMUS > Cc: whatwg at lists.whatwg.org, ayg at aryeh.name > Date: 07/29/2011 12:28 PM > Subject: Re: [whatwg] [editing] Caret Position Access Methods > > 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. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Not sure what you mean by "real caret", but the scenario implies that each co-authoring conference(session) participant would have a corresponding cursor (caret) position depicting their associated reference point for edits.
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