[webkit-dev] [New DOM property] selectionDirection on HTMLInputElement and HTMLTextAreaElement

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Fri Jul 15 14:08:12 PDT 2011


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:

> I should have also asked:  do you have the support of other browser vendors
> for this feature?  Or, is it possible that when they set out to solve this
> problem that they might end up doing it differently?  Are you sure we
> shouldn't vendor prefix this method if we are going to be the only
> implementer?


I can't think of any other way this property can be implemented. So no, I
don't think there's a chance for other vendors to implement this API
differently.  If anything, they may never implement "none" because
directionless selection is Mac-ism but the spec covers that case as well.

- Ryosuke
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