On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:52 +0200, Xiaomei Ji <xji@chromium.org> wrote:

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Maybe I should propose Document.wordFromPoint() which directly returns the word under the mouse (and handles both the DOM node and non-DOM form control nodes). It hides the information about the node and should be a useful API.

Don't you need at least some context information as well besides just the word? Although I suppose you can get that using a combination of elementFromPoint and wordFromPoint...

I think we should consider changing caretRangeFromPoint's return type, if it's not too late. It's useful to get the caret position inside a text form control, beyond the immediate use case. Instead of returning a Range, caretRangeFromPoint could return an object like this: interface CaretPosition { readonly attribute Node containingNode; readonly attribute int offset; readonly attribute DOMString offsetKind; // "document" or "control" } It could have a convenience method for converting a Range too, if that's really needed (which would give null or something for a control position). Regards, Maciej