On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Marijn Haverbeke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > This sounds good to me. I used the term "forwards" and "backwards" >> > for the DOM Range spec, which I think make more sense. I also think >> > selectionDirection is a better property name, as Ojan suggests. >> >> Coincidentally, that was exactly what I was going to propose at first, >> but then I found the "top"/"bottom" thing made the concepts slightly >> easier to explain ("where is the anchor" vs "if it goes in this >> direction, that means the anchor is ..."). >> > > I don't like "top"/"bottom" because it seems to imply certain visual > orientation. (e.g. I think RTL text in vertical writing mode flows bottom > up). To make terms agnostic of text direction and writing mode, I'd prefer > "forwards" / "backwards". > > - Ryosuke > > >
