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My attempt at implementing what medium describes: https://github.com/NickStefan/tome-editor

My favorite idea was using independent ranges data objects to track styling. Eg {start: 2, end: 3, range: color, value: blue}. Then only the rendering api needs to worry about overlapping ranges. Basically avoids manipulating trees. That's partly what makes content editable suck so much.

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Could you publish an online demo, even a gif if you don't want to host one? You're probably missing out on quite a few users who are too lazy to clone and install, just to bookmark for later use.

I've been meaning to do that! I'll definitely move it up the priority list.

I had intended the api to be entirely programmatic and allow others to build GUIs for how they wanted, say, font size drop downs to look. I could host the test html page I've been testing it with. It exposes some random styling buttons and visualizes the data model below the rendered text.

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