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> But outside of word processing I'm not sure what you mean by that, surely word processing is exactly what Quill is meant to be used for? Table use outside of
by orf 11y ago
> But outside of word processing
I'm not sure what you mean by that, surely word processing is exactly what Quill is meant to be used for? Table use outside of word processing could just be achieved by something other than Quill entirely.
> tables are just not used very much. ... None of the big sites using Quill are clamoring for tables.
That's fair enough, I doubt they would be used in the context of writing an email, blog post (but that is debatable, I often include tables of figures/results) or a task manager description. But there are many, many back office applications that take user input through a WYSIWYG editor and put it into some kind of report. I think tables are critical here (I was also surprised to see nested lists[2] are not supported in Quill, that's also pretty important). Maybe Quill isn't aiming for those kind of use cases though, but it's just such a shame that TinyMCE is the best solution.
It's possible to do right, we used to use Redactor[1] and that handles the basic use cases extremely well while producing super clean output.
1. https://imperavi.com/redactor/plugins/table/ https://imperavi.com/redactor/plugins/table/
2. https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/118 https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/118
- jhchen 11y agoI'm not sure if I'm using the terminology correctly but to me Microsoft Word and Google Docs are word processors. They offer a whole new level of formatting capabilities with thousands of options to support that goal, with a feature set so complete they are products all by themselves. The use cases I mentioned utilizes composing text, but that's not the main product. If you want to build a CMS, add in app messaging, add formatting to textboxes, then Quill could be the answer. If you want to build the next Google Docs, out of the box Quill will probably not be enough.