10691 2010-09-22 22:47:59 +0000 [Selection] Specify extend method for Selection objects 2011-12-20 19:49:58 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG DOM unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 10798 1 timdown annevk annevk ayg ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-webapps www-dom public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 39189 0 timdown 2010-09-22 22:47:59 +0000 Recent versions of Mozilla, WebKit and Opera all include an extend() method of their Selection objects, implemented (as far as I can tell) identically. I suggest HTML5 should specify this method, for two reasons: 1. It is a de facto standard among the more standards-compliant browsers 2. Vitally, it provides a mechanism for programmatically creating a backwards (i.e. where the focus point comes before the anchor point within the document) selection, which otherwise can be created by the user by dragging "backwards" but not programmatically. 44312 1 ayg 2011-01-13 00:04:56 +0000 I'm doing this next. Apparently it's more complicated than it looks, but we'll see. 44853 2 ayg 2011-01-28 18:28:57 +0000 Spec: http://html5.org/specs/dom-range.html#dom-selection-extend Tests: http://aryeh.name/spec/dom-range/test/selection-extend.html This spec isn't currently in W3C space, but that's a detail, so I'll call it FIXED.