281778 - range linked with text node is changed when content of node is changed.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122

var range=selection.getRangeAt(0).cloneRange();
textnode.data='hello';
alert(selection.getRangeAt(0)==0);// expression is true, it is right
alert(range.startOffset==0);// expression is true, why?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Attachment: test case

run it from chrome protocol

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Non-chrome-needing testcase

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please see
http://w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113/ranges.html#Level-2-Range-Mutation
and in particular section 2.12.2.

Behavior is exactly following the spec here.