Just for clarification: My understanding from Pete's mail was that we
would talk about the line number valid for a single object, not for a
document. And that it doesn't matter whether or not the app has
visualization for line numbers.
So if you have a text document with two paragraphs in OOo (whi
On 6/08/2010 4:53 AM, Malte Timmermann wrote:
> Just for clarification: My understanding from Pete's mail was that we
> would talk about the line number valid for a single object, not for a
> document.
In that case, my comments weren't really relevant. See below.
> And wrt James's comment that it
>> So a larger question is
>> if we should harmonize the current IA2 and FF object attribute specs,
>> hopefully borrowing from other mature specs like CSS2 (or maybe even
>> CSS3).
> I think this is perhaps a good idea.
>
I think this is a good idea and at least worth trying.
cheers,
David
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Just for clarification: My understanding from Pete's mail was that we
would talk about the line number valid for a single object, not for a
document. And that it doesn't matter whether or not the app has
visualization for line numbers.
So if y
Hi Pete,
Returning the line number seems very odd to me; I would avoid it.
Here's why:
Some documents/apps do line numbering for the entire document
Some documents/apps do line numbering per page
Most documents/apps don't have this
In many situations, resizing the text field will cha
On 6/08/2010 12:31 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
> It has been requested that a means be provided to get the current line
> number of a text control (i.e. the line number that the caret is
> currently on).
It might be useful to do this for individual pieces of text, rather than
just the caret; see below.
It has been requested that a means be provided to get the current line
number of a text control (i.e. the line number that the caret is
currently on). IA2 has a way to get the contents of the current line,
but not the line number.
Apparently Firefox returns a "line-number" field in the object
att
