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Re:A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement wal... by holler on Saturday July 24, 2021 @02:55AM (#27938991)
> that a event based editor is the technical better choice

could you expand on this? what's the high level

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Re:A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement wal... by wisty on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:17AM (#27939042)
You literally build the editor from the ground up (events like keystrokes modify a data object which then changes the page), rather than trying to patch the browser's editor (including all possible versions of every supported browser) into doing what you want.
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Re:A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement wal... by andrewshadura on Saturday July 24, 2021 @04:22AM (#27939238)
Yes, and everyone using Compose or dead keys starts to hate you.
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