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Re: Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

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Post by TeMPOraL »

RE the flat paragraph structure - did they just reimplement Emacs in the browser?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Te...

(Also I think - from occasional messing with XML in .docx files - but can't be sure that Word flattens styling like that as well.)

Re: Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

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Post by FMashiro »

rayalez wrote: post #96

I'm choosing an editor for my project right now. Can someone compare ProseMirror to Slate and Quill? What is the difference, which one is better? What do I need to know to choose one?

If you just need a WYSIWYG editor on a web page, and it's a single one, I've used tinyMCE.

On projects where I've had to load up multiple instances, I've had to move away form it as it kept reloading stylesheets and js files for each editor on the page.

Now I usually use quilljs, which works really well for some basic markup.

Re: Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

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Post by onion2k »

ramphastidae wrote: post #92
albertsun wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're hiring! You should apply! https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Tech/job/New-York-NY/S...

Any openings that need Python folks?

A word of unsolicited advice: Someone who thinks "I am a Python developer" is generally less useful to a team than someone who thinks "I am a developer who is good at Python."

Re: Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

#105

Post by nwmcsween »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #101

RE the flat paragraph structure - did they just reimplement Emacs in the browser? https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Te... (Also I think - from occasional messing with XML in .docx files - but can't be sure that Word flattens styling like that as well.)

Any sufficiently complicated editor contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of emacs?

I prefer vim though..

Re: Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

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Post by thaumasiotes »

onion2k wrote: post #104
ramphastidae wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any openings that need Python folks?

A word of unsolicited advice: Someone who thinks "I am a Python developer" is generally less useful to a team than someone who thinks "I am a developer who is good at Python."

It depends on whether you're taking the perspective "if someone offered me this job, would I take it?" or "if I applied to this job, would they hire me?".

Re: Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

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Post by WizardOfNomaha »

onion2k wrote: post #104
ramphastidae wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any openings that need Python folks?

A word of unsolicited advice: Someone who thinks "I am a Python developer" is generally less useful to a team than someone who thinks "I am a developer who is good at Python."

In most hiring settings this isn't true though. Language-specific skills actually do matter, for all but entry-level positions at massive tech companies. It's not like my 3 years of experience in Ruby is immediately translatable to Java/Python/whatever. Could I get up to speed in those languages in due time? Sure. But if you were on a hiring committee, hiring for a team that works mostly with Java (or whatever) would you rather hire me or the version of me that's had the same amount of experience but with Java?

Re: Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

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Post by TeMPOraL »

nwmcsween wrote: post #105
TeMPOraL wrote: post #101

RE the flat paragraph structure - did they just reimplement Emacs in the browser? https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Te... (Also I think - from occasional messing with XML in .docx files - but can't be sure that Word flattens styling like that as well.)

Any sufficiently complicated editor contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of emacs? I prefer vim though..

Vim ain't sufficiently complicated (that can arguably be seen as a good thing). That's why it's been mostly reimplemented in Emacs.

Re: Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

#109

Post by onurozkan »

rayalez wrote: post #96

I'm choosing an editor for my project right now. Can someone compare ProseMirror to Slate and Quill? What is the difference, which one is better? What do I need to know to choose one?

Prosemirror and Slate both great projects but lack of community interest. They are basically framework for creating WYSIWYG, until they release full featured editor built on it, i dont think it will become popular.

Personally tried both, working with Slate feels much smoother, plugin system easier than prosemirror in my opinion.

And, there is ckeditor5-beta. You might wanna check out.

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