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Updated bililiteRange

It seems like a long time ago that I started updating bililiteRange but it was only 3 months ago. And I think I'm done (though projects are never done!). bililiteRange 3.2 is released, and requires history.js, toolbar.js, jquery.status.js and jquery.keymap.js for all the functionality, though really the core only requires history.js. The documentation is at […]

2020 09 07 Danny Javascript Comments (0)

Moving bililiteRange into the modern age.

I haven't updated bililiteRange for years, but it's time to drop support for Internet Explorer and use modern constructs like Promise and input events. It should make things more simple. From here on in, I will only support Chrome, Firefox and Edge (the chromium-based one; I don't have Edge Legacy. I'm also working on moving […]

2020 06 21 Danny Javascript Comments (0)

bililiteRange.sendkeys

bililiteRange.text() works well to insert text into ranges, but I wanted to be able to simulate other keys, ala Microsoft's SendKeys. bililiteRange.sendkeys() does exactly that. It basically executes text(string, 'end') but interprets any text between braces ('{key}') as a command representing a special key. For security reasons, the browser won't let you do anything outside […]

2015 01 14 Danny Javascript Comments (0)

New bililiteRange plugin, ex

There have been lots of times that I've wanted to be able to keep my hand on the keyboard when editing, rather than running off to the mouse all the time. There's an implementation of VIM in Javascript but I figured I would learn something by doing it myself. My goal is vi, not vim, […]
2014 04 03 Danny Javascript Comments (0)

IE 11 bugs

Turns out Internet Explorer is even worse than imagined. It's right at the bottom of the Uncanny Valley--close enough to a real browser to make it look like it works, but lots of near-impossible-to-track-down bugs that make life miserable. Turns out that Node.normalize is broken (see the bug reports and a workaround), so I had […]

2014 03 12 Danny Javascript Comments (0)

bililiteRange and Internet Explorer 11

Well, I ran the test code for bililiteRange and got "132 assertions of 151 passed, 19 failed." Better than none passed, I suppose, but it means I've got some work ahead of me. Or I could just give up on IE, but IE11 is supposed to be standards-compliant, so the errors might actually reflect a […]

2014 03 10 Danny Comments (1)

bililiteRange data

There have been a lot of times I have needed some information for a bililiteRange plugin that was associated with the underlying element, rather than a specific range. For instance, in bililiteRange(element).text('foo') then bililiteRange(element).undo() the undo needs to know about the previous text change. jQuery has a data() method that attaches an object to the […]

2014 02 26 Danny Javascript Comments (0)

New features for bililiteRange

I liked the way Dabblet does autoindenting (entering a new line copies the whitespace from the beginning of the current line, so you keep the same level of indentation). So I added an option to bililiteRange(element).text() to do that. Now bililiteRange(element).text('text to insert', select, true) with true passed as the last option will autoindent. My […]
2014 02 23 Danny Javascript Comments (0)

Preserving the Insertion Point on Blur

One of those ongoing unsolved problems with web apps is how to keep track of the selection or insertion point in an editing element, when the focus has moved onto some other element. For instance, in a rich-text editor, you want to be able to select a word, then click the "bold" button and make […]
2014 01 06 Danny Javascript Comments (1)

DOM 3 events for bililiteRange

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 […]
2013 12 30 Danny Javascript Comments (0)