14482 2011-10-17 14:37:59 +0000 The DOM interface for the INPUT element have the properties 'selectionStart' and 'selectionEnd'. The opposite of the word 'start' is the word 'stop'. The opposite of the word 'begin' is the word 'end'. But the standard mixes the word 'start' with the word 2011-10-18 08:38:26 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED INVALID http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian annevk jackalmage mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 58291 0 contributor 2011-10-17 14:37:59 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/spec.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: The DOM interface for the INPUT element have the properties 'selectionStart' and 'selectionEnd'. The opposite of the word 'start' is the word 'stop'. The opposite of the word 'begin' is the word 'end'. But the standard mixes the word 'start' with the word 'end'. The properties should be named 'selectionStart' and 'selectionStop' or 'selectionBegin' and 'selectionEnd'. Posted from: 212.247.162.243 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 58305 1 jackalmage 2011-10-17 22:21:07 +0000 Incorrect. "start" and "end" are legitimate opposites. For example, one talks of the "start" of a race and the "end" of a race. As well, "start" and "end" have been long established as opposite directions in the inline axis in CSS and other APIs. 58328 2 annevk 2011-10-18 08:38:26 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: <http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html>. Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: They are used as nouns cannot be changed at this stage because of deployed content. (Thanks Brian Lam.)