On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:35 PM, David Young <dyo...@pobox.com> wrote: > I have seen this spec before. It seems to have something to do > with creating a word processor-like environment in the browser, > something that I am acutely interested in, but there isn't much > introduction/justification to it. Is there an executive summary of the > editing API somewhere?
I filed a bug to remind me to add a better intro at some point, but no guarantees that I'll get to it in the foreseeable future: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16894 You can read tutorials and such that you can find by Googling "contenteditable" or "execCommand". This page looks especially good, at a glance, like most things written by Mark Pilgrim: http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-contenteditable On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Ojan Vafai <o...@chromium.org> wrote: > This looks good to me. Could we just call the method setText though since > the range values are optional. setRangeText, in retrospect, is wordy and > confusing in a way that setText isn't IMO. .setText("foo") sounds like it should set the entire text, not just the selected text.