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#798 — Add editing support

• bug_id: 798
• creation_ts: 2012-10-15 16:33:00 -0700
• short_desc: Add editing support
• delta_ts: 2012-10-23 23:11:13 -0700
• product: Internationalization - ECMA-402
• component: Specification
• version: Edition 2.0 proposals
• rep_platform: All
• op_sys: All
• bug_status: RESOLVED
• resolution: WONTFIX
• priority: Normal
• bug_severity: enhancement
• everconfirmed: true
• reporter: Mark
• assigned_to: Norbert

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• commentid: 1939
• comment_count: 0
• who: Mark
• bug_when: 2012-10-15 16:33:52 -0700

Some implementations need much finer-grained support for editing. For example, Google Docs implements a complete text editing framework.

This is extremely difficult in JS currently, yet every modern OS has support for the low-level APIs that make it efficient and practical. These include the ability to find the width of a string, but also the ability to find out where cursor positions would be, etc. Should include support for BIDI positioning also.

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• commentid: 1990
• comment_count: 1
• who: Norbert
• bug_when: 2012-10-23 23:11:13 -0700

Text editing support is beyond the scope of TC 39, and should be proposed to a W3C working group instead. See discussion at
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-October/thread.html#25937