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:20091016" rel="nofollow">Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:39:15 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre style="margin: 0em;"> On Oct 16, 2009, at 10:23 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;"> Hi Maciej: Thanks for your comments. I have a question about "interface CaretPosition": </pre><tt>In case of form control node, such as <textarea>, the 'offset' is </tt><tt>the character offset within the <textarea> under mouse, 'offsetKind' </tt><tt>is "control", what is the value of 'containingNode"? Is it itself or </tt><tt>its shadowAncestorNode? </tt></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>The node for the <textarea> would be the one reported (or of the </tt><tt><input type="text"> or whatever kind of form control it was). The </tt><tt>concepts of "shawdowAncestorNode" and shadows trees in general do not </tt><tt>exist as far as Web standards are concerned. These things are </tt><tt>implementation details of WebKit. </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> - Maciej </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> Thanks, Xiaomei </pre><tt>On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> </tt><tt>wrote: </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: </pre><tt>On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:52 +0200, Xiaomei Ji <x...@chromium.org> </tt><tt>wrote: </tt><tt>Maybe I should propose Document.wordFromPoint() which directly </tt><tt>returns the word under the mouse (and handles both the DOM node and </tt><tt>non-DOM form control nodes). </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> It hides the information about the node and should be a useful API. </pre><tt>Don't you need at least some context information as well besides </tt><tt>just the word? Although I suppose you can get that using a </tt><tt>combination of elementFromPoint and wordFromPoint... </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>I think we should consider changing caretRangeFromPoint's return </tt><tt>type, if it's not too late. It's useful to get the caret position </tt><tt>inside a text form control, beyond the immediate use case. </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>Instead of returning a Range, caretRangeFromPoint could return an </tt><tt>object like this: </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> interface CaretPosition { readonly attribute Node containingNode; readonly attribute int offset; readonly attribute DOMString offsetKind; // "document" or "control" } </pre><tt>It could have a convenience method for converting a Range too, if </tt><tt>that's really needed (which would give null or something for a </tt><tt>control position). </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> Regards, Maciej </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><pre>_______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev">http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev</a> </pre> </div> <div class="msgButtons margintopdouble"> <ul class="overflow"> <li class="msgButtonItems"><a class="button buttonleft " accesskey="p" href="msg08740.html">Previous message</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="c" href="index.html#08741">View by thread</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="i" href="maillist.html#08741">View by date</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textalignright"><a class="button buttonright " accesskey="n" href="msg08743.html">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <a name="tslice"></a> <div class="tSliceList margintopdouble"> <ul class="icons monospace"> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg08672.html">[webkit-dev] propose an API to return Range in <texta...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg08678.html">Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to return Range in ...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg08684.html">Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to return Range...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg08689.html">Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to return R...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Maciej Stachowiak</span></li> </ul></li> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg08688.html">Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to return Range...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Maciej Stachowiak</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg08740.html">Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to return R...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> <li class="icons-email tSliceCur"><span class="subject">Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to return R...</span> <span class="sender italic">Maciej Stachowiak</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg08743.html">Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to retu...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Xiaomei Ji</span></li> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </div> <div class="overflow msgActions margintopdouble"> <div class="msgReply" > <h2> Reply via email to </h2> <form method="POST" action="/mailto.php"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Re: [webkit-dev] propose an API to return Range in <textarea> etc. form control nodes (similar functionality as document.caretRangeFromPoint)"> <input type="hidden" name="msgid" value="8A1CEAFC-D342-4470-B877-DAA0F948D8E0@apple.com"> <input type="hidden" name="relpath" value="webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org/msg08741.html"> <input type="submit" value=" Maciej Stachowiak "> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="aside" role="complementary"> <div class="logo"> <a href="/"><img src="/logo.png" width=247 height=88 alt="The Mail Archive"></a> </div> <form class="overflow" action="/search" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="l" value="webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org"> <label class="hidden" for="q">Search the site</label> <input class="submittext" type="text" id="q" name="q" placeholder="Search webkit-dev"> <input class="submitbutton" name="submit" type="image" src="/submit.png" alt="Submit"> </form> <div class="nav margintop" id="nav" role="navigation"> <ul class="icons font16"> <li class="icons-home"><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li> <li class="icons-list"><a href="/webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org/">webkit-dev - 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