Developing a Rich Text Editor: Problems and Solutions
summary
A history of browser text editing and common WYSIWYG editor problems, followed by a survey of modern web editor types and features. Covers handling multiple input methods (keyboard, voice, copy/paste, autocomplete/autocorrect, gestures), limitations of contentEditable and execCommand, and relevant browser APIs (Selection, IME, Clipboard, MutationObserver, CompositionEvents) plus the W3C Input Events specification.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:24Why not build your own
- 6:06Content editing methods
- 11:48Alternatives to content editable
- 13:54Document state storage
- 17:24HTML vs JSON storage
- 21:57Handling user input
- 31:44Undo and redo implementation
- 32:06Style isolation
- 37:00Responsive editor layout
- 38:51Extending functionality
- 41:37Future of Rich Text Editor
- 43:41Modern editor examples
- 55:21Q&A
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