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I feel like some of the biggest difficulties Rich text editors in browsers face nowadays are supporting social media type inputs like mentions, hashtags, emojis
by ericmcer 8y ago
I feel like some of the biggest difficulties Rich text editors in browsers face nowadays are supporting social media type inputs like mentions, hashtags, emojis, etc. while still maintaining the classic rich text selections. DraftJs is the only one that achieved that for me, I had to do some serious elbow grease to get functioning hashtags in Redactor (another rich text editor).
SlateJS user mentions are far away from what users expect a mentions plugin to work like.
- coldtea 8y agoIn which context, outside a social media website, are "mentions" a common part of text editing on the web?
- mgiannopoulos 8y agoJira has mentions and it’s not social media. Basically anything with users who need to communicate(?)
- sealjam 8y agoDropbox paper has mentions and I wouldn't consider it social media. Same for trello.
- sbr464 8y agoTons. I think it’s a modern UX issue, and the fact that social platforms popularized an @, #, shortcut platform means even my mom (somehow) knows how to use it. It’s a stretch saying, but i feel there’s a loss for a developer/product to not take advantage of the momentum around popularized social-style tagging patterns for unrelated use cases.
- manigandham 8y agoMany apps that have collaboration features support some type of mentions and labels to tag users.
- fastball 8y agoWhat exactly is lacking from the Mentions example for you?
- digitalbase 8y agoThe mention plugins is easily fixable and simple functionality. We have that fixed for a long time now. It should not be a reason not to consider slate
- sbr464 8y agoWhat issues are you seeing with slate? I was able to integrate pretty easily several advanced mention style patterns (similar to how slack integrations work) using draftjs. Assuming how slate has addressed other draftjs design issues, I can’t imagine the api would be far off. I’m curoious since we are working in this space currently.
- mydigitalself 8y agoWhat's wrong with the current mentions plugin and what's preventing you from writing a new one or improving the existing one with a PR?
- madspindel 8y agoTake a look at quill-mention (https://github.com/afconsult/quill-mention https://github.com/afconsult/quill-mention) Disclaimer: I made it.