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Or because their requirement aren't just plain text. Browser's builtin controls isn't really customizable, for example you can't change a color of a specific wo
by maple3142 6y ago
Or because their requirement aren't just plain text. Browser's builtin controls isn't really customizable, for example you can't change a color of a specific word in a textarea.
Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24076601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24076601
- hakfoo 6y agoI always wondered why we never added any more form control tags. Everything has to be re-engineered as a huge ball of ugly JavaScript. A <richtextarea> that yielded HTML or even RTF seems like it was an obvious need by time of the end of the Netscape/IE browser wars.