Yeap, same here would really love to build my own WYSIWYG even for testing / learning purposes I know a great range of editors but still want to dive in this part and build one from scratch..
document exec is great and easy to use most of the editors these days are based on them except the very new ones. but as you said it's deprecated and you can't count on it + building with exec it's a 20 - 30 minutes jobs to do simple things. Diving into selection and range that's the real stuff to play with.
Indeed. When I was looking into this initially an agency shared a kind of a case study saying that making a WYSIWYG was one of the most difficult things that they had ever done. They even went on to say that it is one of the most complicated thing on the front-end.
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Oh yes, it absolutely is. I find it an absolute pity that execCommand got deprecated. This thing shows how simple it could be, but ultimately isn't when you want to have support on all browsers and not rewrite that thing in a year or two.
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Yeap, same here would really love to build my own WYSIWYG even for testing / learning purposes I know a great range of editors but still want to dive in this part and build one from scratch..
document exec is great and easy to use most of the editors these days are based on them except the very new ones. but as you said it's deprecated and you can't count on it + building with exec it's a 20 - 30 minutes jobs to do simple things. Diving into selection and range that's the real stuff to play with.
Indeed. When I was looking into this initially an agency shared a kind of a case study saying that making a WYSIWYG was one of the most difficult things that they had ever done. They even went on to say that it is one of the most complicated thing on the front-end.
Oh yes, it absolutely is. I find it an absolute pity that execCommand got deprecated. This thing shows how simple it could be, but ultimately isn't when you want to have support on all browsers and not rewrite that thing in a year or two.