July 29th F2F Agenda Item - Opt-in/opt-out of editing features and menus

[chong-z]

Original issue w3c/editing#141, w3c/editing#93

In summary, we want to be able to specify 2 lists of allowed/disallowed editing features for

1. Individual editing hosts, and
2. Preferably avoid polluting the HTMLElement interface
   • Maybe a new HTMLElement subclass? Not sure it will work for cE

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@johanneswilm has proposed a solution w3c/editing#93 (comment)

We can then have both opt in and out and a keyword "all" that enables or disables everything. Something like:

let el = document.getElementById('editor')
let editor = el.getEditor()

editor.disableCommands(['all']) // disables everything
editor.enableCommands(['copy','paste','cut','bold','underline']) // reenables the given array of commands
editor.checkCommands(['enlarge']) // True if the browser's UI supports a command with the name "enlarge"

[chong-z]

Oh actually this shouldn't be moved to w3c/input-events, closing.