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| <h2>HTML Editing</h2> |
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| <h3>Overview</h3> |
| <p>Welcome to the HTML editing home page. HTML editing is a new feature that shipped with Safari 1.3 on Panther and |
| Safari 2.0 on Tiger. Most importantly the WebKit editing engine is used to compose mail messages in Mail on Tiger. HTML |
| editing can also be used in Web pages using WinIE-compatible APIs like <i>contentEditable</i> and <i>designMode</i>.</p> |
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| <p>Architecturally the editor operates as a series of commands that are executed on a document's object model tree. Each command |
| can be undone and redone just by performing the appropriate set of DOM operations. The implementation of these commands and |
| other editing infrastructure can be found in the WebCore framework in the <tt>editing</tt> subdirectory.</p> |
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| <p>Editing operations are also part of the WebKit API, and so there is some overlap with that project. Up until now our |
| focus has mostly been on editing for applications that embed WebKit, but we plan to focus in the future on improving the |
| in-page editing support via <i>contentEditable</i>. |
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| <h3>Get Involved!</h3> |
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| <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?product=WebKit&component=HTML+Editing&resolution=---"> |
| View bugs in the HTML editing component in Bugzilla.</a> |
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| <p>Below are some of the tasks that need work in HTML editing.</p> |
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| <dl> |
| <dt>Improve contentEditable divs</dt> |
| <dd>Right now there are a number of issues with editable divs in a Web page. The selection highlighting is not confined to the div, |
| and extending the selection across editable and non-editable content should not be possible. In addition WebKit always clears |
| the selection on a mouse down, and other browsers actually only do this if you mouse down on text. |
| <dt>Add better support for lists and tables</dt> |
| <dd>Lists and tables are two editing features that could use a richer user interface so that these sorts of features could be made |
| available to mail and to other WebKit applications. |
| <dt>Support more of WinIE's APIs</dt> |
| <dd>We want to support more of WinIE's editing APIs, including more commands and text ranges. We welcome any WinIE-compatible patches that |
| improve editing support to match WinIE. |
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