Peter Kasting wrote: > Martijn wrote: >> On 6/23/06, Ondrej Jaura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Technically yes, but it should allow to highlight more >>> elements (or >>> text parts) with different colours; this is not possible with the >>> selection. >>> And the selection is not resistant to user actions, is it? >> >> I think the spellchecker is using the selection code and that is >> resistant to user actions, so you might want to look on how that code >> is working. > > A very similar mechanism is how I'm planning to fix Find bar > highlighting at some point (bug 263683). You use a different selection > type than SELECTION_NORMAL (which is the user selection and the find bar > current match). I'm planning to add a type for highlighting. That will > mean the find bar no longer has to goof with the DOM, which should fix a > lot of issues.
And really, someone should make this extensible infrastructure so an extension or API can define new selection types on demand. /me nominates pkasting Rob _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
