Text Editing Hates You Too
https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/ [lord.io]
2019-10-29 01:00
Alexis Beingessner’s Text Rendering Hates You, published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart.
Back in 2017, I was building a rich text editor in the browser. Unsatisfied with existing libraries that used ContentEditable, I thought to myself “hey, I’ll just reimplement text selection myself! How difficult could it possibly be?” I was young. Naive. I estimated it would take two weeks. In reality, attempting to solve this problem would consume several years of my life, and even landed me a full time job for a year implementing text editing for a new operating system.
source: L