Text Rendering Hates You (2019)
If text rendering hates you, an <i>editable</i> text renderer is 10x worse.<p>Anyone who has spent any time working on contenteditable or any of the browser based rich text editors knows what a nightmare it is. The temptation to abandon all hope and start from scratch with a canvas element and build you own renderer and editor is strong. You start researching how to do it, maybe even create a quick prototype but quickly discover all the edge cases in this article and more.<p>People who have spent significant parts of their career fixing all the inconsistencies between browsers and devices such as Marijn Haverbeke with ProseMirror (and CodeMirror) should get a Gallantry award for the work they have done.