This sounds like a parody. What does "headless" mean in this context? It clearly has an interface, so it's not like a headless browser. Edit: I got the styling link to load now. They just mean no CSS.
And what distinguishes a "web artisan" from a person who types? Edit: oh I think the web artisan is just the web developer who uses this on their page, not the person who uses the editor.
For a headline it doesn't seem to communicate well.
We went with “renderless” for tiptap v1, but this is not really correct and a lot of people switched to “headless”.
Give me a better word that’s know to more people, I’d love to change it!
With web artisans I wanted to point out it’s for people who really care about every detail.
If you just want to slap in an editor and that’s it: tiptap is not for you. If you want to really customize every aspect of the editor: You should definitely consider using tiptap.
Edit: typo
Thank you for being flexible :-)
Headless literally means "gui-less" (without a gui) and has had the same meaning since 1998 or so so it's probably not a good idea to reuse the word to mean something else in the same context.
I would go with either "style-less" (which is a bit awkward to say") or "effortless", which is better even if not totally accurate.
With "effortless" you fully capture how easy it is to use.
> With web artisans I wanted to point out it’s for people who really care about every detail.
You can keep artisan - it looks correct in this context.
Maybe you could explain it's a backend for an editor.
Or maybe "unstyled"?
Unless I misunderstood the example, all you have to do is instantiate it to make it work with a default look.
If "using the API" is headless, then everything is headless because they all have an API, including things like Qt, WxWidgets, etc. This is obviously not the case.
The package comes without CSS and markup as explained on the frontpage.
> Headless > It’s headless and comes without any CSS. You are in full control over markup, styling and behaviour
I saw the title of this story and assumed that tiptap was going to be a component that somehow backed up various WYSIWIG editor-clients. That would be headless. (It's even useful -- the transaction system + collaboration server is theoretically a thing that could back up other clients, after all, though in practice it's going to force enough design decisions onto the clients that it's not really worth it.)
Tiptap does come with a graphical user interface, insofar as it looks like the most minimal possible use of it (from your "Minimal setup" example) will create a contenteditable surface to write in. Said surface is the "head".
I'd consider "flexible", "customizable", or "unopinionated". "Unstyled" was suggested, but although it's true I think it's misleading -- the need to construct your own toolbar goes beyond what that implies.
It has an API, but after a quick peek at the page, I wouldn't say it 'is' an API. I'd call it a library.
Styleless is bad because to be without style is to be bad.
the effortless editor you can customize every aspect of.
"non-opinionated WYSISWYG Text Editor" ?
Headless means a command line program without a GUI.
We also had the opposite: before Xrandr or Xinerama, there was an older X feature called "Zaphod Mode" that allowed you to drive a graphics card's multiple outputs (on cards that supported such) mapping each to a different X "screen", Zaphod Beeblebrox, of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, had two heads, you see.
It just means not WordPress I think in this context.
I'd call it "stylable", "freely stylable", "add your own CSS", "DIY CSS" or similar, as they seem like they mean what you're talking about even to people who haven't run into them before.
Artisanal to me suggests obviously handmade and deliberately unpolished (as a stylistic choice, not a negative). The immediate image that sprang to mind was pottery with finger marks in it, so I was a bit lost with "web artisan". The strengths of tiptap seem to be the flexibility and customisability, and realtime collaboration, so a word that got that sort of thing across would communicate more.
"Artisan" seems fine, although it's slightly obscure. Perhaps instead: control-freak; obsessive; perfectionist. They are somewhat negative, but they're also points of pride for some.
So for example: tiptap, the fully customisable editor for website perfectionists.
Just some suggestions :)
It still can be a good product, but it would be more useful to have a description that reflected its use and benefit.
What is headless? Who come in this case CSS is a "head"? I would say HTML is the head.
EDIT: And it does allow you to customize both styling and markup, as far as I understand.
Second “it” = the UI component branding itself as “headless”
Third “it” = tiptap
Don't forget the classic:
> Made with ♥
We’ll consider to find something more meaningful than love for the footer message.
Both don't have Unicode emoticons.
Nothing wrong with:
"Made with ♡"
Awesome thing about advice and criticism - you can decide to ignore it.
Do "Made for the ♡ of (unicorn emoticon)" if it floats your boat.
This is a common signal for "I care about my [front-end] work."
Anyone can write whatever they want and name their projects however they want.
"Fastest standalone headless framework. Powered by AI. Written in TypeScript, coded with love in San Francisco Bay, by @kode_ninja using VSCode."
I write this with no offence. Just always have a chuckle while reading phrases like parent commenter and I commented on. :)