On 28 January 2011 16:53, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Aryeh Gregor > <simetrical+...@gmail.com<simetrical%2b...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> 2) Have WebKit or Opera run into any websites that depend on being >> able to use multiple Ranges per Selection? >> > > As far as I know, there is no bug filed against this, which seems to imply > that we haven't had significant issues. > > 3) Are WebKit or Opera planning to add support for multiple Ranges per >> Selection? (I'd be interested in IE too, clearly, but they don't read >> this list.) >> > > Not anytime soon as far as I'm concerned. We do have a comment in the code > indicating there had been a plan, but I don't think anyone is actively > working on it. Because we haven't had much complaints from users and > developers and supporting it requires so much work, I personally think it's > not worth the effort.
At the risk of misusing this platform, I would venture that WebKit has more pressing issues with Selections (for example, not being able to place the caret at the start of a text node). Tim