On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Dan Gisolfi wrote: > Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote on 07/29/2011 12:28:15 PM: > > > > > > An example scenario for such a requirement (addition of such > > > methods) would be the following: When developing an cooperative web > > > enabled rich-text-editor, whereby multiple simultaneous users can > > > co-author shared content, the editor must be able to allow each > > > participant to get/set caret/cursor position in order to reflect the > > > multiple positions of each active author in a cooperative web > > > session. > > > > Surely all but the local one would not be real carets? > > Not sure what you mean by "real caret"
By "real caret" I mean a caret that supports all the complexity of the system caret: relationship to the system selection, being movable by the user, effect on execCommand() APIs, effect on local system focus, etc. > but the scenario implies that each co-authoring conference(session) > participant would have a corresponding cursor (caret) position depicting > their associated reference point for edits. I don't think those are system carets. Why wouldn't using a <span> element be sufficient for this? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
