This looks interesting especially the part about "Trix sidesteps these inconsistencies by treating contenteditable as an I/O device". We recently started using froala (https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/v2.0) and are really happy with it so far.
Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
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#12One thing this gets right that heaps of other WYSIWYG's get wrong is lists. You can create a proper multi-level list here with order and unordered lists nested inside each other correctly. This sort of stuff is actually important for creating accessible documents as things like flowcharts need a plain text version and nesting lists is a reasonable way of displaying these.
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#13Please tell me this is a humane alternative to TinyMCE, CKEditor, etc?
Going from the README, the main difference is the architecture.
It creates a layer of indirection between user actions and the DOM. This has two advantages:
* For developers of Trix itself, it eases the pain of cross-browser development - as the README says, contenteditable is inconsistent across browsers.
* For developers using Trix, you get a clean API (Trix.editor) so you can edit the document programmatically without your own cross-browser development.
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#14so... does it have vi mode?
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#15How does this compare to Prosemirror? ( http://prosemirror.net/ )
How about you try it out and tell us about it?
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#16Does anyone know if this would adapt well for real-time use with multiple people writing at once? Etherpad-style. Or would that need to be architected differently from the start?
Also, sad that it's in Coffeescript.
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#17Interesting naming. The WYSIWYG rich text editor in Google Docs is named Kix. The engine behind Google Sheets is named Trix.
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#18Does anyone know if this would adapt well for real-time use with multiple people writing at once? Etherpad-style. Or would that need to be architected differently from the start? Also, sad that it's in Coffeescript.
Nothing sad about it. Just because it isn't $your_favourite_language doesn't mean it's sad.
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#19How does this compare to Prosemirror? ( http://prosemirror.net/ )
This doesn't support images as far as I can tell
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just added a demo: http://trix-editor.org/
Neat, thanks! Literally just this morning I was thinking to myself that I would give just about anything for a high quality OSS rich text editor capable of generating terse, correct HTML output. And here, not even 24 hours later , one just falls into my lap.
Looks like you got two wishes left. Use them wisely...