[webkit-dev] Disjointed selection ranges

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn at skynav.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> I have to admit there are some valid use cases for supporting multi-range
>> selection but the complexity it adds to our codebase is unjustifiable.
>> Gecko has tried this for a decade but they're now trying to get rid of it.
>> See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753718.
>>
>
> One could make the same (complexity) argument (and many have) against
> supporting "complex" scripts in the first place. That is a pretty
> subjective argument, when certain minorities have no choice but dealing
> with things that many of us would find "complex" [look how long it took to
> support Tibetan|Dzongkha]. For example, one might argue that Japanese
> should start writing in romaji because kanji|kana is too complex. But that
> argument never works.
>
> Personally, I have implemented and supported disjoint, multi-range
> selections in a number of high-end editing products (for the preprint
> industry). I found this quite implementable, though admittedly not
> straightforward. Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth on this thread...
>

You can implement multi-range selection in WebKit and make all editing
commands work, then please implement it by all means.

- Ryosuke
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