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> The same operation used to require implementing a single delegate method in 1990s AppKit.

I find that hard to believe.

And not to "uhm, ackshually" you, but what you're describing is possible via the native HTML "contenteditable" property.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

(Actually doing something useful with edits is another story, but that's not what the comment is about)

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contenteditable is incredibly painful to use, not standardized and different across browsers, and buggy in firefox

Sure, though the question was about "making a table cell editable" requiring pages of obscure code.

_Technically_, it requires a single HTML attribute.

If you want to build some sort of reactive, spreadsheet-like experience with cells and calculations, then yeah there's some inherent complexity in that.

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