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Re:CKEditor 5: New approach to rich text editing on the web by jordanlev on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:21PM (#15509254)
I do a ton of work with CMS's, building sites for non-technical clients who manage their site without much knowledge of HTML, CSS, or any coding/encoding (even markdown would be a bit much for some of my users).

The big win that you get with a block-based system (as opposed to 1 big chunk of HTML) is that it allows us to build out the content editing interface in a way that is very "guided" for the user... like, if there is a photo gallyer, we have a repeating list of slides and they have fields for a photo and a caption. Then on the front-end we can build our HTML+CSS markup around those specific fields. You can't do that easily with 1 big chunk of HTML.

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Re:CKEditor 5: New approach to rich text editing on the web by manigandham on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:44PM (#15512754)
Right, that's what I mean about HTML tooling. It's a fine data format but DOM manipulation isn't very good compared to a JSON data structure with native integration into javascript and more universal parsing ability. The mobiledoc format is a good start at standardization.
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