- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:26:46 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- Cc: 'whatwg' <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, ayg@aryeh.name
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, David Dailey wrote: > > I don't know if this matters or not, but at some point in time, other > standards than HTML like <svg> or <audio> might receive sensible > proposals to allow other media (than just text) to be contentEditable. > > Just as it makes sense to have built in text editors (imagine the > spectrum ranging from <textarea> to rich web content editors like in > Google+ and beyond) in a spec that deals with text (as in HyperText ML > handling such routine things as word-wrap, backspace, delete, select, > copy, paste etc.), so might it make sense to have a default > (cross-browser-consistent) generic drawing pad that produces structured > graphical objects (and not just silly pixelbits) built into a graphical > element or a default (cross-browser-consistent) sound studio built into > audio objects. The GUI interfaces for these things have been pretty > consistent since MacDraw in 1984 and SoundEdit in 1986 so any patents > with the oft-replicated interface would have expired by now. > > I'm not saying that coherent proposals that meet the acceptance of the > standards community for such will emerge in the next few years, but at > some time, the logic for them is likely to eventually overcome the > resistance. And, in the meantime, it might make sense to make sure that > what is done with the stuff in HTML is consistent with the broader > spectrum of possible use cases that will emerge in the future. That seems reasonable in general. Did you have anything specific in mind that isn't consistent in this way? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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