> On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.


Filed https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/41 
<https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/41> to track this.

- R. Niwa

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