After playing with selection in various Mac OSX apps and reading the earlier discussion on this list, I agree that the spec does the best possible cross-platform implementation after all.
I apologize for bringing this back up, and thank you for your responses. Philip On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:14:39 -0000, Philip Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > It looks like editors using a textarea (such as codemirror) are currently > working around this by not drawing a cursor when there is a selection. > > In ignorance of the specificatory problem you describe, this seems sane > enough to me. Whether to draw or not to draw a curser when there's a > selection should of course be up to users. I'll refrain from thinking about > the behaviour of multiple selections. > > >
