Marijn Haverbeke: Salvaging contentEditable: Building a Robust WYSIWYG Editor | JSConf EU 2015

Web-based WYSIWYG editors are notorious for spitting out a distasteful HTML soup. In this talk I’ll show how I implemented an editor that, instead of trying to filter and clean this soup, takes control away from the browser’s contentEditable implementation, and reinterpret user actions as operations on our own semantic document model (i.e. not HTML). The result is a WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) editor, more predictable than classic WYSIWYG, and just as user friendly.
Intro music by @halfbyte

[@ThomasGiles]

That was great! Always been interested in writing a "safer" rich editor that's definable and so on. But the barrier to entry is just so prohibitive. Thanks for going over all this, it was fascinating to hear about this stuff, and it's pretty rare anyone goes down the rabbithole on this and comes back to tell us about it ;P

[@ivanmeno]

26:20 who’s watching in 2020 and still waiting?

[@Hytpu9]

you should check prosemirror editor, Marijn Haverbeke is the creator of that

[@sheikhsalman4882]

Thanks for showing how simple yet complex it is.

[@avisternlieb449]

Fascinating talk; thanks for all the great open-source work!!

[@herbertpimentel]

OMG This is sooo amazing!!!