From: Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rn...@apple.com] 

> Given defining innerText is completely outside the scope of the selection API 
> specification, we might need to defer this part to a level 2 specification 
> since the only alternative is to wait for someone to write a innerText spec.

I don't know all the history here, but this bug and proto-spec seems relevant:

- https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13145
- 
https://web.archive.org/web/20121127212525/http://aryeh.name/spec/innertext/innertext.html

The work already done on this might make including innerText-dependent features 
more feasible.

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