Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors

Re:Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich tex... by consumer451 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:11PM (#18461704)

I have been dealing with paste-from-word issues as well. The biggest issue is ordered lists. Word is very smart about keeping the ol going even if there are extra linebreaks in between list items. Most rich text editors mess up this enumeration when pasted from Word. One thing I noticed about slate.js is that it simply converts the ol into text, which keeps the correct numbering. This is a successful solution.

And my question to HN is: why do our web app users keep typing in Word first? I save drafts in local storage, but they still use Word first. Is it the formatting familiarity? Is it a Start Menu shortcut? What is it? What can we do to address users not using our web apps first?

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Re:Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich tex... by paperpunk on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:11PM (#18463944)

I think they are comfortable with it from using it for a long time.

In fact I find people do everything in MS Office products, generally in ways you wouldn't necessarily expect the software to be used. E.g. PowerPoint is the de facto tool for designing conference posters. To create 'versions' of documents, people will copy and paste the file and add a number at the end.

I think we often get so myopic about our perspective on technology that we forget that non-technologists have a vastly different relationship with it.

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