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ProseMirror has been open-sourced

114 points by mrdrozdov 11y ago

leejoramo 11y ago
Having struggled with through the web content editing for over a decade, I am excited that this project is moving forward and will be open source. Glad that I was able to contribute to see it happen, and thanks to everyone else who added their funds.
pto0239hn 11y ago
This is Marijn Haverbeke's project, creator of Eloquent Javascript and CodeMirror. Good to see that it was funded!
sitkack 11y ago
There was a 8k euro Anonymous donor 2 hours ago. Wow. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror/x/1663745#/funders https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror/x/1663745#/fu...
- k1w1 11y ago
  The anonymous donor was Aha! (http://www.aha.io http://www.aha.io). It wasn't as anonymous as we expected because Marijn tweeted it :-), but we are excited by ProseMirror and the opportunity to contribute. WYSIWYG editing is a huge part of what our app does, and so I have always been on the lookout for better ways to build editors. Marijn's approach of using a shadow document representation (http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html) is the most promising solution I have seen for a while.
  - toomuchtodo 11y ago
    And you even get support with it! (based on the Indiegogo reward level)
  - sitkack 11y ago
    Thanks for this! Aha is an inspiration for me. I am working on something similar but not a direct competitor to Aha.
bobfunk 11y ago
Very very cool! Great news!
JohnHammersley 11y ago
Congratulations! Just added a contribution from the Overleaf[1] team who've been great admirers (and supporters) of CodeMirror -- it's a great editor and I look forward to seeing where ProseMirror goes! :) [1] https://www.overleaf.com https://www.overleaf.com
abc_lisper 11y ago
What is ProseMirror? I don't want to download it before i see it.
- ecesena 11y ago
  http://prosemirror.net http://prosemirror.net
lewisl9029 11y ago
So glad to see this get funded! I'm probably going to try to use this in my project really soon.
pfooti 11y ago
At this time, it is kind of wild that handling rich text content editing is so hard on the web. It is understandable, but a bummer, that really good content tools (google docs, office 365, medium) do not open source their editors. There are some good tools (textbox, aloha, hallo, quill) and some decent legacy ones (ck, mce), but nothing that is clearly a go-to tool that handles rich text, structured text (tables and lists), operational transforms, and sanitizing input well. It's always like: choose two. Kudos to ProseMirror for tackling this. I can't wait to see how this works out. Also, it is kind of nice to have a way to contribute monetarily; I don't have the time (or expertise) to really contribute code. I would, given the need.
- thangalin 11y ago
  Here is a list of browser-based editors: https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Editor https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Editor Although ProseMirror isn't listed, the page provides a decent summary of various editors and reasons why they are unsuitable for certain types of in-browser editing. Kudos indeed!
- socceroos 11y ago
  webODF is a nicely done ODF editor. Owncloud uses this in their own online document editing addon. http://www.webodf.org/ http://www.webodf.org/ The other really good one (which has been around for a while) is OX Documents: https://www.open-xchange.com/en/ox-documents https://www.open-xchange.com/en/ox-documents
- anilgulecha 11y ago
  Guardian's scribe is another very good example of keeping the view separate from the model. The model produces clean data, which is the same across browsers.
bevacqua 11y ago
Here's an alternative editor I wrote that also supports input using raw HTML http://bevacqua.github.io/woofmark/ http://bevacqua.github.io/woofmark/
- dchest 11y ago
  Not the same, you wrote contentEditable=true-based editor; ProseMirror is the full editor implementation separate from DOM, like Google Docs.

114 points by mrdrozdov 11y ago

Having struggled with through the web content editing for over a decade, I am excited that this project is moving forward and will be open source. Glad that I was able to contribute to see it happen, and thanks to everyone else who added their funds.

pto0239hn 11y ago

This is Marijn Haverbeke's project, creator of Eloquent Javascript and CodeMirror. Good to see that it was funded!

sitkack 11y ago

There was a 8k euro Anonymous donor 2 hours ago. Wow. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror/x/1663745#/funders https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror/x/1663745#/fu...

k1w1 11y ago
The anonymous donor was Aha! (http://www.aha.io http://www.aha.io). It wasn't as anonymous as we expected because Marijn tweeted it :-), but we are excited by ProseMirror and the opportunity to contribute. WYSIWYG editing is a huge part of what our app does, and so I have always been on the lookout for better ways to build editors. Marijn's approach of using a shadow document representation (http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html) is the most promising solution I have seen for a while.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  And you even get support with it! (based on the Indiegogo reward level)
- sitkack 11y ago
  Thanks for this! Aha is an inspiration for me. I am working on something similar but not a direct competitor to Aha.

bobfunk 11y ago

Very very cool! Great news!

JohnHammersley 11y ago

Congratulations! Just added a contribution from the Overleaf[1] team who've been great admirers (and supporters) of CodeMirror -- it's a great editor and I look forward to seeing where ProseMirror goes! :) [1] https://www.overleaf.com https://www.overleaf.com

abc_lisper 11y ago

What is ProseMirror? I don't want to download it before i see it.

ecesena 11y ago
http://prosemirror.net http://prosemirror.net

lewisl9029 11y ago

So glad to see this get funded! I'm probably going to try to use this in my project really soon.

pfooti 11y ago

At this time, it is kind of wild that handling rich text content editing is so hard on the web. It is understandable, but a bummer, that really good content tools (google docs, office 365, medium) do not open source their editors. There are some good tools (textbox, aloha, hallo, quill) and some decent legacy ones (ck, mce), but nothing that is clearly a go-to tool that handles rich text, structured text (tables and lists), operational transforms, and sanitizing input well. It's always like: choose two. Kudos to ProseMirror for tackling this. I can't wait to see how this works out. Also, it is kind of nice to have a way to contribute monetarily; I don't have the time (or expertise) to really contribute code. I would, given the need.

thangalin 11y ago
Here is a list of browser-based editors: https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Editor https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Editor Although ProseMirror isn't listed, the page provides a decent summary of various editors and reasons why they are unsuitable for certain types of in-browser editing. Kudos indeed!
socceroos 11y ago
webODF is a nicely done ODF editor. Owncloud uses this in their own online document editing addon. http://www.webodf.org/ http://www.webodf.org/ The other really good one (which has been around for a while) is OX Documents: https://www.open-xchange.com/en/ox-documents https://www.open-xchange.com/en/ox-documents
anilgulecha 11y ago
Guardian's scribe is another very good example of keeping the view separate from the model. The model produces clean data, which is the same across browsers.

bevacqua 11y ago

Here's an alternative editor I wrote that also supports input using raw HTML http://bevacqua.github.io/woofmark/ http://bevacqua.github.io/woofmark/

dchest 11y ago
Not the same, you wrote contentEditable=true-based editor; ProseMirror is the full editor implementation separate from DOM, like Google Docs.