Text Rendering Hates You (2019)
If text rendering hates you, an editable text renderer is 10x worse.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.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.