I should have also asked: do you have the support of other browser vendors for this feature? Or, is it possible that when they set out to solve this problem that they might end up doing it differently? Are you sure we shouldn't vendor prefix this method if we are going to be the only implementer?
-Darin On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > No, as far as I know. > > - Ryosuke > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> Are any other browsers implementing it? >> On Jul 14, 2011 5:47 PM, "Ryosuke Niwa" <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I have a patch to add selectionDirection property on HTMLInputElement >> and >> > HTMLTextAreaElement on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60403. >> > >> > The purpose of this property is to let websites control base and extent >> of >> > selection. The property has been added to the HTML5 spec section >> > 4.10.20< >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#textFieldSelection >> >, >> >> > and an extensive discussion about this >> > feature< >> http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-January/029814.html >> > >> >> > has >> > been done on whatwg. Given the discussion took place on whatwg and how >> > simple this API is, I consider it to be a stable API. >> > >> > Best, >> > Ryosuke Niwa >> > Software Engineer >> > Google Inc. >> > >
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