> On Jan 9, 2016, at 6:25 PM, Olli Pettay <o...@pettay.fi> wrote: > > Hard to judge this proposal before seeing an API using StaticRange objects. > > One thing though, if apps were to create an undo stack of their own, they > could easily have their own Range-like API implemented in JS. So if that is > the only use case, probably not worth to add anything to make the platform > more complicated. Especially since StaticRange API might be good for some > script library, but not for some other.
The idea is to return this new StaticRange object in `InputEvent` interface's `targetRanges` IDL attribute, and let Web apps hold onto them without incurring the cost of constant updates. - R. Niwa