[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 25222] RTL: extending selection after change text directionality behaves differently for textarea and div element

Wed Jan 26 15:45:41 PST 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25222

--- Comment #8 from Levi Weintraub <leviw at chromium.org>  2011-01-26 15:45:41 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I expect a rich editing box to act like a word document - "only acts paragraph-level", not like a textarea - that should change the writing direction for all content.
> 
> Will changing the behavior for divs affect the behavior for rich editing (in Gmail for example)?
> if it will, then it should not be changed IMO.
> if not, then i don't have a strong opinion in this matter- while I see the paragraph-level behavior as superior, and generally a good thing... being consistent with FF/IE is also good.

It would, and you're right.

I now think the issue here lies with the current editing command behavior of only preserving the start/end positions, and not the base/extent positions. It would be a large change to update them all to support this, and it may make sense to roll this into a larger reworking of how editing commands deal with selection preservation.

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