- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:23:42 +0900
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, chairs@w3.org, www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org, Daniel.Veillard@w3.org
At 16:41 1999/12/16 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote: > "Martin J. Duerst" wrote: > > Please note that for RTL scripts (Arabic, Hebrew), graphical user > > selection can lead to the selection of more than one logical parts > > (ranges) of a document. > > And that logical selection, which is more likely to be useful (ie, give > you text you can paste somewhere else and have it still make sense) will > give a contiguous selection on the document (a single start point and a > single end point) although it may display as multiple discontiguous > portions on the screen. > > This is the more common case, since selection is typically initiated by > some sort of pointer click and the other end is determined by tracking > the current pointer position (and finalised by a second click); this > produces a single start and a single end, and the selected portion is > all characters in between. This is exactly the same for LTR, RTL and > mixed scripts; only the visual result differs. As far as user preference is concerned, it seems that using graphical selection (setting two points and selecting all the text that is visually in between these two points) is more common. Please remember that while the average programmer or spec writer is good at thinking internally/logically, the average user thinks much more graphically. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
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