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Why are text editors so popular a project? My apologies if that sounds anything less than a legitimate question. I'm genuinely curious. It seems very common to
by akulbe 11y ago
Why are text editors so popular a project? My apologies if that sounds anything less than a legitimate question. I'm genuinely curious.
It seems very common to me, over the last several years, to see $NEW_SHINY_EDITOR, and I wonder why.
Are the alternatives that bad? Or is it just a matter of another dev wanting to scratch their own itch?
- stephenr 11y agoThis is a "WYSIWYG" style rich text editor to embed in a webpage/CMS - its not a desktop "text editor" that a developer might use to write code with.
- jacobsenscott 11y agoYes, they are all terrible. I don't know if this will be any better. They all highlight how bad the web is as an environment to host applications. A rich text editor - something that is a trivial toy project in any other application development environment - is impossible to build on the web in 2015.
- sstephenson 11y agoIt is not impossible. It just takes a lot of time and effort. It took two developers around 18 months to build Trix. The readme explains how our approach is different from other WYSIWYG editors. (Most others are just toolbars that call execCommand.)
- lobster_johnson 11y agoDid you look at ProseMirror? http://prosemirror.net/ http://prosemirror.net/
- sstephenson 11y agoYes, of course we've seen ProseMirror. It looks quite nice. By the time we first heard of it several months ago, the bulk of Trix had already been written.
- manigandham 11y ago> Are the alternatives that bad? Yes, almost all of them have major issues. It's really hard to get something that works with all the main text use cases but can also support images and some basic layout features (like drag/drop, move stuff around, etc).