Intent to Prototype: CSSOM Document.nodesFromRect API

[Chromestatus]

Contact emails

lwa...@igalia.com

Explainer

https://github.com/Igalia/explainers/tree/main/nodes-from-rect

Specification

None

Summary

An API on Document for returning the sequence of elements or text nodes within a rectangle.

Blink component

Blink>Editing>Selection

Web Feature ID

Missing feature

Motivation

Browsers provide a variety of built-in interaction modes for HTML content. However, there are use cases where these built-ins aren't enough: for example, the browser’s selection mechanism only works in the text-flow direction. In certain contexts, users want to interact with content in more specialised ways. A common example is the ability to select an area of the screen to interact with a grouping of content (e.g. to copy it or to move its position). This feature's goal is to provide web developers the ability to get access to content within a specific area of a web page. This is useful for creating custom interaction models beyond those provided by browsers. While this is possible today, the solutions are limited and require heavy lifting from developers.

Initial public proposal

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/11605

TAG review

None

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

None

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? None

Debuggability

None

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No

Flag name on about://flags

None

Finch feature name

None

Non-finch justification

None

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5125651610861568?gate=4902851658776576

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