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I think @jhchen does a good job summarizing about why tables are hard. If you absolutely need table support, Froala[1] is the only relatively modern/complete ed
by lhl 11y ago
I think @jhchen does a good job summarizing about why tables are hard. If you absolutely need table support, Froala[1] is the only relatively modern/complete editor I've come across w/ decent table editing, but it's not open source/free. (Aloha v1 has a table plugin, but v2 AFAIK does not. Mercury and Medium Editor (w/ the tables extension) allow insertion, but not editing).
One interesting thing I found looking for table support a while back is that there is a medium-editor-handsontable extension[2]. Something like this w/ the ability to attach a dedicated grid object (or embed a gdoc) is probably the way to go.
[1] https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor
[2] https://github.com/asselinpaul/medium-editor-handsontable https://github.com/asselinpaul/medium-editor-handsontable
- lhl 11y agoI'll also add that there is an editor that I think basically is the "holy grail": * super fast/responsive * inline/contextual UI * automatic transmogrification (s to ULs, ``` for code blocks, etc) annotations * revision tracking * collaborative editing * image uploads + formatting * table insertion + editing * task lists * attachments It's Dropbox's Paper editing component, but I don't think that's going to be open-sourced anytime soon. Maybe ProseMirror, Trix, ContentTools, or Quill or one of the other squajillion editors will get there someday. It really is a shame that there are so many partial solutions out there.