On Apr 11, 2014, at 7:09 AM, Domenic Denicola <dome...@domenicdenicola.com> wrote:
> 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. Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, we might need to take a slightly different approach more based on the CSS box tree because whitespace collapsing, etc... are defined in CSS2.1 and CSS level 3 specifications. - R. Niwa
