Well, I have implemented a very simple demo of the first steps. So far, the script only makes sure to add some extra text to the current selection when ever the mouse button is released (which is how most users select most text) and it only works in Firefox (tested in 3.6). Next steps include making the link direct to the actually selected content, record text copying in Google Analytics, add cross-browser checks etc.

The script is published under the same license as these ideas, CC-BY 3.0.

Why?

Copy-paste is another quite common way of interacting with websites and allowing people to easily spread the word about your website in a new way ensures you credit where such is due. Creating a full-featured jQuery-plugin from this should be fairly easy and then making sure it integrates with Google Analytics if present – and then we’re actually done.

What’s next?

Do with this idea whatever you like – expand, implement, trash or forget. Just remember, that if you use it in anyway make sure to attribute me according to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, that all these 365 Social Ideas are published under.

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Before even testing whether implementations are conformant and/or where their differences lie, I will try simply to list all implementations.

It is noteworthy, that while LibXML (like many other libraries) is based on libxml2 (which in itself does not implement either traversal nor range) LibXML has a partial implementation of DOM2 Traversal.

If you know of any other implementations of DOM and particularly implementations of either traversal or range, please comment.

References

Some of this has been found simply by googling, some has been found through the DOM bindings list and some found at Wikipedia about DOM comparison. Finally I found this list of DOM software, which has many other open or commercial implementations, that I will have to look through – many of them seem to use one of the above-mentioned, many only support DOM1, but the list might add some relevant implementations.

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