- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:29:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, jbrewer@w3.org, www-archive@w3.org
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote: > > > > As a Mozilla developer, I would not make caret and selection tracking > > for canvas a priority until it's clear that discouraging authors from > > implementing text editing in canvas has failed. > > (And even then, we'd have to examine the reasons why authors were > insisting on writing text editors in canvas. If it's "because they're > boneheads", asking them to use special accessibility APIs is probably > pointless.) It's also pointless if the real reason is "the more appropriate API is inadeqate", as was the case with Bespin originally (IIRC, they wanted a way to do syntax highlighting, which they viewed as being as hard using contenteditable="" as using <canvas>, and which is impossible with <textarea>). In such a case it would be better to fix the appropriate API rather than canvas as well. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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