Pell – A simple and small rich-text editor for the web

1k does sound quite appealing. But: most of the time a WYSIWYG editor is called is when in 'admin pages' where little to nobody gives a shit about page load time. It's more about CRUD performing as expected.

This is cool :)

That said (and not to take thunder away from your page), this is possible because the HTML spec itself allows for any element to be made into a "WYSIWYG" editor by adding the "contenteditable" attribute.

What most other larger editors are doing is working around some of the horrendous non-standardized versions of execCommand which varies across browsers.

Ideally a web standards body should come out with a element, which is controlled through a sane API, and the spec spelled out to support everything by default. And get rid of the bane that is rich text editing on the web.

I am impressed by both the size and the features and no dependencies. Kinda like a gui linux under 20 MB. People need to do such similar things instead of a huge bloated single page web app with features that nobody want.

Great project.

>where little to nobody gives a shit about page load time.

If it has an end user that is not yourself, I can guarantee you they do care - even if it's not a conscious realisation.

Since it uses contenteditable, the result depends on your browser.

Firefox gives me

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