[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 66681] Need API for getting surrounding text from webkit in chromium

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66681





--- Comment #43 from Hironori Bono <hbono at chromium.org>  2011-09-01 18:30:15 PST ---
Greetings,

This is just an off-the-topic question: it seems this change does not check whether the focused element is a password field. I'm wondering how this change prevents IMEs from reading text in password fields as [WebHTMLView attributedSubStringFromRange] does. If I recall correctly, Chrome OS has an IME extension API so extension developers can implement IMEs and virtual keyboards. If WebKit allows IMEs to read text in password fields, it may allow extension developers to read text in password fields. (I'm not sure if it is good to allow such extension developers to read text in other input fields.)

By the way, to implement [attributedSubstringFromRange:nsRange], Mac Chrome adds the WebKit::WebSubstringUtil class. Maybe we use this class for consistency? (Even though this is a random thought, it seems Mac Chrome uses a round-trip IPC request to implement this method. It might be better for a renderer to send attributed substring to a browser when it is changed to avoid such round-trip IPCs as we send cursor position?)

Regards,

Hironori Bono

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