web/dom based apps (web + electron) have been particularly bad for text entry there's no satisfying option for text input that doesn't come with various kinds

web/dom based apps (web + electron) have been particularly bad for text entry there's no satisfying option for text input that doesn't come with various kinds of tricky formatting, scroll jank, periodic slowness, and general trouble the assumption that we can write sophisticated + performant GUIs on cross-platform frameworks may not be right if contenteditable didn't ship in the next v of chrome I think people who maintained CE-based tools would just shrug, assume it was a new compatibility quirk, get it working at some cost to their codebase, and move on without ever checking the doc