- From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:35:55 -0500
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:55:04AM +0300, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Young <dyoung at pobox.com> wrote: > > I'm curious what advantages document.execCommand() has over the > > customary DOM API for adding/deleting/moving nodes? > > execCommand() does vastly more complicated things than the DOM APIs. > See the spec for details: > > http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/editing/raw-file/tip/editing.html I have seen this spec before. It seems to have something to do with creating a word processor-like environment in the browser, something that I am acutely interested in, but there isn't much introduction/justification to it. Is there an executive summary of the editing API somewhere? Dave -- David Young dyoung at pobox.com Urbana, IL (217) 721-9981
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