- From: Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:36:46 +0100
- To: 'Frank Boumphrey' <boumphreyfr@agentbrand.com>
- Cc: www-forms-editor@w3.org
Hello Frank,
> For example you can't position a text cursor using script; identify the
> position of the cursor;select a hunk of text using script;
> insert text into a certain position in a text box; or identify the text
> selected by a user.
>
> This makes building true web applications difficult. What is need is a
change
> to the DOM API for HTML forms.
Take a look at:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range/>
which I would say does most of what you are after.
Regards,
Mark
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