On 6/16/11 3:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Assuming we don't match WebKit/Opera here, though, does everyone agree we should still place constraints on what selections can be generated by *user* actions? E.g., if you have<b>foo</b>bar, and the user places the cursor in between "foo" and "bar" by any means, it should always be inside the<b>, not outside.
This is an interesting situation which is the inverse of the bidi problem. In the bidi case there is a single point in the DOM which corresponds to two different user-perceived selection positions. In this case, a single user-perceived selection position corresponds to multiple (could be more than 2) points in the DOM....
As an actual user of editors, by the way, the #1 thing that pisses me off about wysiwyg editors is precisely having situations like the one above and wanting to be able to make the text be "<b>foo</b>orbar" in some cases but "<b>foopy</b>bar" in others. Wysisyg editors tend to be terrible at this sort of thing. Is that something that's inevitable, or can we do better here?
-Boris
