> On Jan 13, 2015, at 4:21 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.bars...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 1/13/15 6:54 AM, cha...@yandex-team.ru wrote: >> 13.01.2015, 05:31, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbar...@mit.edu>: >>>> On 1/12/15 1:56 PM, Olivier Forget wrote: >>>> Unfortunately >>>> multiple range selections are not a "nice to have". All "real" editors >>>> (MS Word, Google Docs, etc..) support selecting multiple ranges >>> Precisely. This is why Gecko ended up supporting it: it was needed for >>> the editor that was part of the Mozilla suite back in the day.... >>> >>> Of course I've made this point before; it just got ignored. :( >> :( >> >> And yeah, painful as it may be to implement in the browser, I suspect in the >> long run it is the right answer. > > If the `plan of record` is to not explicitly address selecting multiple > ranges in the first version of the spec, perhaps a new issue should be > created (with an `enhancement` tag). > > (I didn't notice such an Issue in > <https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue> and will > gladly create one if folks confirm that is the consensus and expectation.)
Indeed, someone who feel strongly about this feature (multi-range selection) should feel a new issue. - R. Niwa