Re: Fwd: Re: [cssom-view] Is there a need for a plural form of document.caretPositionFromPoint()?

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:11:12 +0200, Scott Johnson <sjohnson@mozilla.com>  
wrote:

> Yes, I have a use case.
>
> mozilla mobile currently uses caretPositionFromPoint for reflow-on-zoom.
> We pull the caret position so that a double tap in a large paragraph can
> scroll to the exact area where the user double-tapped, after reflow (as
> the actual text position may change after reflowing).
>
> The problem is that if we have a double-tap event occur where there is
> some type of overlaying or covering element, we get into a problem where
> the caretPositionFromPoint returns a caret position within the overlaid
> element. It's possible this is what we want, but it would be nice if we
> could access ALL of the elements' caret positions, and then choose
> easily from these.

It seems to me like this zooming is a feature of the browser rather than  
something that an author would implement in a Web page/app. Is that right?

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software