In Safari, focusing an element destroys the current selection range.
That's bad enough, but get this -- the reset has *already happened* when the `focus` event fires, so we can't snapshot the data because it's already lost. And yet the resulting `selectionchange` event **hasn't** fired yet, so we can't use that event to filter-out the change.
Are you fucking kidding me??
#javascript #selection #caret
James Edwards /
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2024-06-16 13:36:48
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