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> just write my own WYSIWYG editor For your own mental health, don’t. I was looking for an old article describing how bad the API is, written by one of the aut
by laundermaf 4y ago
> just write my own WYSIWYG editor
For your own mental health, don’t. I was looking for an old article describing how bad the API is, written by one of the authors of a WYSIWYG JS editor, but I can’t find it.
- girvo 4y agohttps://ckeditor.com/blog/ContentEditable-The-Good-the-Bad-and-the-Ugly/ https://ckeditor.com/blog/ContentEditable-The-Good-the-Bad-a... Or https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480?gi=d435208e3b0d https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1... Are two that I remember reading... nearly 10 years ago, holy hell can someone please make time slow down? Which discuss the common API pitfalls with `contenteditable` -- though I've no idea how painful it is in 2022. Could be a lot better now?
- laundermaf 4y agoAh yes the second one is exactly it. > Could be a lot better now? Effectively zero progress. Last year I heard some work being done on an alternative API but I haven’t see that since. I don’t expect anything to be done before 2025 if ever.