Bug 186465

Summary:	Support multiple ranges selection
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Ebrahim Byagowi <ebrahim>
Component:	HTML Editing	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	Normal	CC:	mitz, mmaxfield, rniwa, wenson_hsieh
Priority:	P2
Version:	Safari 11
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
See Also:	https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196480

Description Ebrahim Byagowi 2018-06-09 15:05:45 PDT

Analogous to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=851279 I believe web browsers should implement multiple ranges which does exist on Firefox for many years.

Steps to reproduce:
Select a range of text, try to select another range of text with Ctrl (See https://github.com/yoichio/public-documents/blob/master/multiranges.md also)

Expected:
Like Firefox

Actual:
Multiple text selection doesn't work.

Comment 1 Ebrahim Byagowi 2018-06-09 15:15:22 PDT

Google is interested on that https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/41#issuecomment-343060585 and Firefox already has it.

Comment 2 Ryosuke Niwa 2018-06-10 01:33:57 PDT

This requires a major re-architecturing of our editing code. As much as we should do this, I don't think it'd happen in practice :(

Comment 3 Myles C. Maxfield 2018-06-18 16:06:48 PDT

Never say never ;-)