168597 - Freeze nsIEditingSession interface

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, defect)

Description

[Juan José Mata]

From http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/apiReviewNotes.html#nsIEditingSession
, issues to be addressed:

    *  Need a new API on this interface (bug 132700 logged on this) for handling
of subframes.
    * Split interface into two, so that init(...), setupEditorOnWindow(...) and
tearDownEditorWindow(...) can be separate and private.
    * Need to add a way to make a window non-editable.
    * Cannot control what kind of editor is created (we pass no flags down to
the editor code), like mail editting-type or HTML vs. plaintext.
    * Remove nsIEditingShell from includes.
    * Also need to figure out a way to handle the types of content that cannot
be edited.
    * Remove nsIEditor as well, since the whole idea going forward is to have
the CommandManager/CommandParams mechanism to access the editor functionality.

Please follow the guidelines outlined in the "How to mark an interface as
FROZEN" at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/HowToFreeze.html

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Over to mike

Comment 2

[Juan José Mata]

Set milestone (1.2beta) as well as dependency info.

Comment 3

[timeless]

um, ver 1.2 is still not part of the build, the idl file as is doesn't follow
style and has at least one visible typo:
51                   the session (usually the content root frame.
52               */

is there a reason this bug is unconfirmed? is it a stealth freeze?

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

confirm; not a stealth freeze
It's more desirable to freeze nsIEditingSession than freeze the editor apis.
If it's not part of the builds, I suspect it will be in the next few months.  :-)

Comment 5

[Juan José Mata]

Removing already-past target milestone.  Mike/Chris please re-target.

Nominating topembed since editor embedding clients will need this interface frozen.

Comment 6

[saari (gone)]

topembed+, let's just freeze it

Comment 7

[mjudge]

picking milestone to make sure this is on the radar for 1.6

Comment 8

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

We don't freeze interfaces anymore.