- From: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:38:26 +0300
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote: > That sounds like a tangential issue. We can easily extend execCommand to > support arbitrary range(s) since such a feature is also valuable in richly > editable areas. Ranges don't exist in plaintext areas. How would you get a Range object that selects text in a textarea? That's why we have separate .selectionStart, .selectionEnd, etc. properties to start with. > In this case, we have an API,?namely document.execCommand,?supported by two > major browser engines (for years) that provides more or less the same > functionality as the proposed API. delete works in IE as well as WebKit. insertText (which is what would be needed for this feature) is WebKit-only, in both plaintext and richtext.
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