Re: [whatwg] content editing (was Re: Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText)

2012-09-06 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:37 PM, David Young wrote: > I have to say that I'm uneasy with the way that this API wavers between > answering interaction-design questions and telling what ought to happen > to the DOM under, say, an execCommand('insertText'). Just for example, > lots of words are spen

Re: [whatwg] content editing (was Re: Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText)

2012-09-06 Thread Simon Pieters
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:37:58 +0200, David Young wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:55:04AM +0300, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Young wrote: > I'm curious what advantages document.execCommand() has over the > customary DOM API for adding/deleting/moving nodes? ex

[whatwg] content editing (was Re: Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText)

2012-09-05 Thread David Young
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:55:04AM +0300, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Young wrote: > > I'm curious what advantages document.execCommand() has over the > > customary DOM API for adding/deleting/moving nodes? > > execCommand() does vastly more complicated things th