- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 21:56:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 6 May 2011, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've added selectionDirection = 'forward'/'backward'/'none'.
> > > > ('none' is the default selection direction on Mac OS.)
> > >
> > > Thank you for the update! One thing to point out is that
> > > setSelectionRange in WebKit currently sets "forward" direction when
> > > the argument is omitted
> >
> > That's a bug in WebKit. It doesn't match platform conventions.
>
> What makes you say that? If there's no compatibility issue or a strong
> argument for it, I'm very reluctant to change WebKit's behavior since
> the current behavior matches with those of Internet Explorer and
> Firefox.
On Windows, sure, it should default to "forward" just like the spec says.
But on Mac, it should default to "none", since otherwise the behaviour is
inconsistent with the platform selection behaviour.
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