Ah, finally!
By glazou on Friday 3 December 2004, 04:51 - Standards - Permalink
Ten years. For the first time in ten years yesterday, someone who does not belong to the editor implementors' community told me : "yeah, editors are complex; when you start a selection in the middle of an element and extend it to the middle of another element, and press the delete key, that's something". Thank you Dan Connolly, you probably did not notice how much I appreciated.
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Hi Daniel, could you explain briefly why you seems to say that it's more difficult to begin a selection in the middle of a word and finish in the middle of another ? I don't see why and I'm insterested in knowing it.
Thanks.
He doesn't mean words, but HTML elements - imagine something like this:
<p>Example paragraph, with <b>bol#d text</b><i>and it#alic text</i></p>
(where # marks the start and end of the selection)
Anyone who knows quite well i18n knows how complex selection, edition, and cursor movement becomes when you go further than the most usual scripts.
Mozilla has some problems WRT that, and I wonder who really works on it ?
I wish at least there would be some progress on "Mozilla destroys non-breakable spaces" problem (bug 194498, bug 218277).