Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
Yes. I couldn’t find a publicly available documentation for it. We need to figure out whether there is any compatibility concerns for making them (anchor/focus and base/extent) behave the same if we’re to remove it in WebKit. - R. Niwa On Aug 6, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I don’t understand the difference. setBaseAndExtent would then set all 4 of these properties of selection? Do you have a definition to use for this? From: Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rn...@apple.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:43 PM To: James M. Greene Cc: Ben Peters; public-webapps Subject: Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent Focus and anchor are different concepts from base and extent. While the former always coincide with start and end, base and extent may be different from those two. In particular, when a user selects text by double clicking on a word, base and extent stays at where the user had clicked while focus and anchor will extend to the beginning and the end of the word like start and end. - R. Niwa On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, James M. Greene james.m.gre...@gmail.com wrote: For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. From: Ben Peters Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM To: Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org Subject: RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 From: Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
One possible reason for that is that there is no documentation for it anywhere. At least, none that I've ever been able to find, and I'm more interested than the average developer. This goes too for other WebKit extensions such as range.expand(). Tim On 7 August 2014 00:43, Julie Parent jpar...@google.com wrote: For what its worth, we plan to remove base and extent from Blink/Chromium ( https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=230267). We've found that developers do not understand the difference between focus/anchor and base/extent, and since it is only supported by WebKit based browsers, it is not heavily used. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I don’t understand the difference. setBaseAndExtent would then set all 4 of these properties of selection? Do you have a definition to use for this? *From:* Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rn...@apple.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:43 PM *To:* James M. Greene *Cc:* Ben Peters; public-webapps *Subject:* Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent Focus and anchor are different concepts from base and extent. While the former always coincide with start and end, base and extent may be different from those two. In particular, when a user selects text by double clicking on a word, base and extent stays at where the user had clicked while focus and anchor will extend to the beginning and the end of the word like start and end. - R. Niwa On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, James M. Greene james.m.gre...@gmail.com wrote: For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. *From:* Ben Peters *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM *To:* Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org *Subject:* RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 *From:* Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com ben.pet...@microsoft.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM *To:* Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org *Subject:* [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
This doesn't fully cover what setBaseAndExtent() does in WebKit/Blink: as you pointed out yourself, it acts like extend(), which allows programmatic creation of backwards selection by providing a focus (extent) that is earlier in the document than the anchor (base). Your text doesn't cover the backwards case. Borrowing from the spec text for extend() and minus all the links to definitions, how about: void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The setBaseAndExtent(baseNode, baseOffset, extentNode, extentOffset) method must run these steps: 1. Let base be the boundary point (baseNode, baseOffset) and extent be the boundary point (extentNode, extentOffset). 2. Let new range be a new range. 3. If base is equal to extent, set new range's start and end to (baseNode, baseOffset). 4. Otherwise, if base is before to extent, set new range's start to base, then set its end to extent. 5. Otherwise, set new range's start to extent, then set its end to base. 6. Set the context object's range to new range. 7. If extent is before base, set the context object's direction to backwards. Otherwise, set it to forwards. Tim On 5 August 2014 23:51, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. *From:* Ben Peters *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM *To:* Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org *Subject:* RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 *From:* Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com ben.pet...@microsoft.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM *To:* Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org *Subject:* [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
Focus and anchor are different concepts from base and extent. While the former always coincide with start and end, base and extent may be different from those two. In particular, when a user selects text by double clicking on a word, base and extent stays at where the user had clicked while focus and anchor will extend to the beginning and the end of the word like start and end. - R. Niwa On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, James M. Greene james.m.gre...@gmail.com wrote: For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. From: Ben Peters Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM To: Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org Subject: RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 From: Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
I don't understand the difference. setBaseAndExtent would then set all 4 of these properties of selection? Do you have a definition to use for this? From: Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rn...@apple.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:43 PM To: James M. Greene Cc: Ben Peters; public-webapps Subject: Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent Focus and anchor are different concepts from base and extent. While the former always coincide with start and end, base and extent may be different from those two. In particular, when a user selects text by double clicking on a word, base and extent stays at where the user had clicked while focus and anchor will extend to the beginning and the end of the word like start and end. - R. Niwa On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, James M. Greene james.m.gre...@gmail.commailto:james.m.gre...@gmail.com wrote: For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.commailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. From: Ben Peters Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM To: Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.orgmailto:public-webapps@w3.org Subject: RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 From: Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.orgmailto:public-webapps@w3.org Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
For what its worth, we plan to remove base and extent from Blink/Chromium ( https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=230267). We've found that developers do not understand the difference between focus/anchor and base/extent, and since it is only supported by WebKit based browsers, it is not heavily used. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I don’t understand the difference. setBaseAndExtent would then set all 4 of these properties of selection? Do you have a definition to use for this? *From:* Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rn...@apple.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:43 PM *To:* James M. Greene *Cc:* Ben Peters; public-webapps *Subject:* Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent Focus and anchor are different concepts from base and extent. While the former always coincide with start and end, base and extent may be different from those two. In particular, when a user selects text by double clicking on a word, base and extent stays at where the user had clicked while focus and anchor will extend to the beginning and the end of the word like start and end. - R. Niwa On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, James M. Greene james.m.gre...@gmail.com wrote: For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. *From:* Ben Peters *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM *To:* Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org *Subject:* RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 *From:* Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com ben.pet...@microsoft.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM *To:* Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org *Subject:* [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
Interesting. I’ve noticed that setBaseAndExtent is used on gMail. Does it work basically like a ‘setAnchorAndFocus’ would (Base/Anchor and Extent/Focus are the same when set with this API, correct)? From: Julie Parent [mailto:jpar...@google.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 4:44 PM To: Ben Peters Cc: Ryosuke Niwa; James M. Greene; public-webapps Subject: Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent For what its worth, we plan to remove base and extent from Blink/Chromium (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=230267). We've found that developers do not understand the difference between focus/anchor and base/extent, and since it is only supported by WebKit based browsers, it is not heavily used. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.commailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I don’t understand the difference. setBaseAndExtent would then set all 4 of these properties of selection? Do you have a definition to use for this? From: Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rn...@apple.commailto:rn...@apple.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:43 PM To: James M. Greene Cc: Ben Peters; public-webapps Subject: Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent Focus and anchor are different concepts from base and extent. While the former always coincide with start and end, base and extent may be different from those two. In particular, when a user selects text by double clicking on a word, base and extent stays at where the user had clicked while focus and anchor will extend to the beginning and the end of the word like start and end. - R. Niwa On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, James M. Greene james.m.gre...@gmail.commailto:james.m.gre...@gmail.com wrote: For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.commailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. From: Ben Peters Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM To: Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.orgmailto:public-webapps@w3.org Subject: RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 From: Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.orgmailto:public-webapps@w3.org Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. From: Ben Peters Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM To: Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org Subject: RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 From: Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.orgmailto:public-webapps@w3.org Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. *From:* Ben Peters *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM *To:* Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org *Subject:* RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 *From:* Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com ben.pet...@microsoft.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM *To:* Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org *Subject:* [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
?This API is already used on the web so we should probably keep it as-is. From: James M. Greene james.m.gre...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 4:58 PM To: Ben Peters Cc: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps Subject: RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent For consistent terminology with the rest of the API, shouldn't it be `setAnchorAndFocus`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On Aug 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.commailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have added proposed text to this bug. Any objections to this? Proposed text, based on the text for collapse(): void setBaseAndExtent (Node baseNode, unsigned long baseOffset, Node extentNode, unsigned long extentOffset); The method must throw an IndexSizeError exception if offset is negative or longer than node's length ([DOM4]). Otherwise, it must create a new range, set ([DOM4]) its start to (baseNode, baseOffset) and its and end to (extentNode, extentOffset), and set the context object's range to the newly-created range. From: Ben Peters Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:37 AM To: Ben Peters; Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.orgmailto:public-webapps@w3.org Subject: RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 From: Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.orgmailto:public-webapps@w3.org Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
Re: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
Thanks! - R. Niwa On May 20, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Ben Peters ben.pet...@microsoft.com wrote: I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 From: Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
RE: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent
I have filed a bug to track this issue [1]. Ben [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25831 From: Ben Peters [mailto:ben.pet...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 11:28 PM To: Ryosuke Niwa; public-webapps@w3.org Subject: [selection] Selection.setBaseAndExtent I noticed that some websites use selection.setBaseAndExtent [1]. According to what limited documentation I could find, it works similar to selection.extend. Is there any intention to standardize this, or is it made obsolete by selection.extend? Ben [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse
