- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:55:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > Incidentally, it seems to use a WebKit-specific "plaintext-only" value. > > Should we spec that? Aryeh? It's filed as: > > > > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14554 > > > > If this should involve changes to HTML, let me know. > > In principle, yes, this should be specced. In practice, it would > require extensive changes to the editing spec and a lot of careful > thinking, and no one is really working on editing implementations > anyway. Gecko's editor code is in maintenance mode, I haven't received > a single piece of feedback ever about editing from IE or Opera people, > and WebKit is the one that already implements the feature, so I don't > see the effort as being worth the time spent right now. (I did receive > feedback from Opera about selection, but not editing as far as I > remember.) > > The same goes for any other proposed editing spec features. When I see > people actually implementing the existing spec, that's when it will make > sense for me to spend more of my time adding more stuff to it. Until > then, I might fix bugs, but that's it. Sounds reasonable. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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