Re: [webkit-dev] Removing "type" attribute from DOMSelection

2012-06-01 Thread Sam Weinig
Without any data on its usage, I don't support this. -Sam On May 30, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Antaryami Pandia wrote: > Hi , > We plan to remove the "type" attribute from DOM selection. > This attribute is not part of any standard specification and the current > webkit implementation is not consiste

Re: [webkit-dev] Removing "type" attribute from DOMSelection

2012-05-30 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
I support this proposal. While supporting the attribute itself does not impose much maintenance cost, the fact that our implementation is completely different from that of IE poses a serious compatibility problem. Also, there's an alternative to check each value of type that works on all modern br

[webkit-dev] Removing "type" attribute from DOMSelection

2012-05-30 Thread Antaryami Pandia
Hi , We plan to remove the "type" attribute from DOM selection. This attribute is not part of any standard specification and the current webkit implementation is not consistent with IE. I looked at Firefox's selection interface and found its not implemeted there (http://doxygen.db48x.net/mozilla/ht