WebCore's text selection improvements

[Leo Savernik]

Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2003 02:34 schrieb David Hyatt:
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> You basically shouldn't need any of the PaintSelection paint action
> stuff unless you plan to support this feature also.

Ok. So I did the right thing by ignoring it.
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> I'm actually working right now on eliminating KHTML's repaint timer and
> on stopping layout from doing a full repaint every time.  This is a
> change that will be critical to developing your caret navigation code
> into an editor (as well as for speeding up DHTML).

I'm delighted to hear that. I hope the results are portable (i. e. mapable to 
Qt functions), and don't depend on OS X assumptions too much.
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> It's turning out to be quite challenging though. As soon as i have
> something limping along that works reasonably well, I'll post a patch,
> or I could post what I have already with a list of known issues if you
> want to get an early peek.  :)

It's feature freeze, so no need to hurry ;-)
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mfg
	Leo