I've been looking at the DOM 3 event model and decided that the bililiteRange.text() andbililiteRange.select methods ought to implement those, even though they're not in browsers yet. Nobody implements beforeinput, or event.data in the input event handler, and select only works in <input> and <textarea> (not in contenteditable). And that's in modern browsers.
But that's no excuse for me. beforeinput is now dispatched before changing the text, and input after, with event.data set to the text to be inserted, and event.bounds set to the bounds array in the original text (this last is not part of the spec, but it's hard to work with changing text without it). This is an incompatible change from the way it used to work (with event.detail being set to {text: text, bounds: bounds}), but I don't think that many people are using that aspect of the library.
I also moved a few methods from the utilities library into the main code, since I used them so much.
It doesn't look like my workplace is ever going to get past IE8 (many of the machines are still on Windows XP!), so I really want to support those. There are polyfills for getting the event listeners to work, and I incorporated a quick and cheap version of that into the code, and event listenders to dispatch input events on keystrokes, drag and drop, and cut/paste.
bililiteRange is now at version 2.0.
I will be forever grateful when I can drop IE8.
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