This is exactly what I need for my project :)
Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
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Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
#82This is nice. Just want I wanted.
Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
#83Have you considered wrapping this in web component so it can be used without the div + constructor call ceremony?
Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
#84I thought it should be extremely portable ("everything just works, it's native"), but it doesn't work on iOS 9.3.6. It doesn't even let me input text into the textarea... A natural extension seems to be a source code editor with syntax highlighting, like those used in https://marimo.io/ , Jupyter, https://plutojl.org/ and other notebook-like Web editors.
I'm not sure why you are testing in iOS 9.3.6. (which was released in 2015), when the documentation says support for Safari is for versions 16 and above.
Well, as I said, I thought this should work everywhere because it's just a textarea, so I didn't read the docs and rushed to test my hypothesis on an old and widely unsupported device
Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
#85> Embedding was a nightmare - any inherited CSS from parent pages (margin, padding, line-height) would shift alignment.
This seems to be the perfect use case for a web component and its shadow DOM. Instead of using a div.editor, this component could wrap around a textarea and it would progressively enhance the textarea experience.
Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
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Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
#87If it were a WYSIWYG editor, there'd be previews for images. But it seems like it's just syntax highlighting for textareas. Nice project either way, but false advertising.
Indeed it is a misuse of the term. An actual WYSIWYG editor would not show any of the formatting markers.
By definition a “Markdown editor” cannot be WYSIWYG - you can have a WYSIWYG editor that is powered by markdown underneath though, which this is not.
Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you use highlights on text area contents?
You can't mainly because separately tracks its own selection, AFAIK.
There is a proposal to add support for this:
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...
Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
#89Very cool and useful!! Thanks for OSS this :)
Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
#90If it were a WYSIWYG editor, there'd be previews for images. But it seems like it's just syntax highlighting for textareas. Nice project either way, but false advertising.
I can type text, mark it, click "B" for bold and it works. This is WYSIWYG minus images.
WYSIWYG does not refer to the icons in the toolbar, but rather the text itself. This is not WYSIWYG because when I make something bold, I see a bunch of asterisks around it.
Still a cool project, but someone who does not understand markdown would wonder why pressing the heading button makes my text into a hashtag instead of making it bigger.