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ContentEditable is an absolute nightmare across browsers if you want to normalize your content in any way -- since there's no standard for what the generated HT
by HillRat 11y ago
ContentEditable is an absolute nightmare across browsers if you want to normalize your content in any way -- since there's no standard for what the generated HTML is supposed to be, every browser implements it differently (and sometimes very unusually). Couple that to the fact that you can't control what the user is doing (at least not without intercepting events where possible) and you have a feature that lands somewhere between worthless and actively malicious.
- mickaelkerjean 11y agoIn the same way as highjacking the scrollbar, WYSIWYG editors have always feel like a hack to support end user needs without technical background. The idea of being able to seamlessly edit a website, create pages that respect semantic that even my grand ma could maintain is quite compelling to me. Many of those editors tends to produce bad looking HTML code that might be fine for today but will become an headache to migrate to any other platform or will become an headache when somebody decide they want to change the color of all their link as their crappy editors produce inline styling .... Anyway we might not have a one size fit all solution but WYSIWYG isn't a perfect solution either.