paulirish/lazyweb-requests — Issue #58: Comprehensive research of contenteditable/execCommand behavior
Author: atheken
Created: 2012-03-06 17:46:47+00:00
State: open

Some work in this area has already been done:

[Quirksmode execCommand](http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand.html)
[Rangy](http://code.google.com/p/rangy/)

execCommand appears to behave differently in each of the browser implementations.

contenteditable (and nested contenteditables) behave in interesting ways in each of the main browsers.

Consider IE < 8 irrelevant. How does the execCommand behave in IE 8, 9, Chrome, FF, Safari, (maybe Opera).

Is there a way to normalize the behavior of execCommand (in a similar way to how Rangy normalizes the Range and Selection APIs)?