The Google docs team stopped to use contentEditable and developed instead a new "editing surface and layout engine" in Javascript. http://googledocs.blogspot.co

The Google docs team stopped to use contentEditable and developed instead a new "editing surface and layout engine" in Javascript. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-different-about-new-google-docs.html http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-different-about... I don't have an iPad(yet), but I tried a very basic page you can get at http://beebole.com/brol/contentEditable.html http://beebole.com/brol/contentEditable.html Tap the blue screen and start to type. On an android phone it works ok.