Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

Re:Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) by jrm4 on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:38AM (#48893433)

Good work on the effort to the author.

And every time y'all, how absurd is it that this still has to exist? It never stops being wild to me.

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Re:Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) by skrebbel on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:59PM (#48896347)

I don’t completely follow. Why is it absurd to want to generate documents that are editable by humans?

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Re:Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) by jrm4 on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:24PM (#48897532)

No, I mean it's absurd that a horrible "standard" like a Word Doc has such staying power, and that we have to keep writing things against it.

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Re:Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) by fishbone on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:50PM (#48897854)

Since HTML is so rich and the DX is amazing these days, I wish HTML file sharing for the document use case (and using the browser as a client) was widely accepted, it’s another problem/opportunity I’ve pondered a lot.

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Re:Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) by jnathsf on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:43PM (#48900470)

it could be worse and be completely closed source like google docs

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