Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to return Range in etc. form control nodes (similar functionality as document.caretRangeFromPoint)</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org&q=from:%22Maciej+Stachowiak%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Maciej Stachowiak</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org&q=date:20091012" rel="nofollow">Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:50:51 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre style="margin: 0em;"> On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Xiaomei Ji wrote:</pre><pre> </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>For a use case that pinpoint a word from a page, the context </tt><tt>information needed besides word might be the language that the word </tt><tt>is in. </tt><tt>And yes, as you said, if the hit node is needed, elementFromPoint </tt><tt>should do. </tt></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>Hit testing isn't cheap - 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