16883 2012-04-29 06:36:28 +0000 Consider supporting some commands in plaintext editors 2012-12-04 00:51:50 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - HTML Editing APIs unspecified All Windows 3.1 NEW P2 enhancement --- 1 ayg ayg mike public-webapps sideshowbarker+html-editing-api oldest_to_newest 67158 0 ayg 2012-04-29 06:36:28 +0000 Test-case: data:text/html,<!DOCTYPE html> <input value=abc> <script> var input = document.body.firstChild; input.selectionStart = 1; input.selectionEnd = 2; document.execCommand("delete"); </script> This works in IE 10 Developer Preview and Chrome 20 dev, but not Firefox 15.0a1 or Opera Next 12.00 alpha. It might make sense to spec it. (Ryosuke pointed this out on the whatwg list: <http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-April/035566.html>)