[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 185897] AX: setValue on contenteditable should preserve whitespace

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185897

--- Comment #13 from Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> ---
To give good advice about real cases we need to understand what else is done with the text besides display it. So, for example, if we need to make sure the text is uploaded properly to a server, different techniques might be required.

Generally it’s not safe to just set the innerText of an arbitrary HTML element--could have all sorts of different effects on different webpages and might simply be incompatible with what the code on those pages expect--but I must assume that users of screen readers are getting value out of what the screen reader is doing here. But since I don’t know what the value is, it’s hard to form an opinion about what this code should be doing.

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