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Most of the heavy lifting comes with contenteditable, but it is impressive nevertheless.

Wow! I am a frequent visitor of HN and did not know such an awesome feature existed. Wonder why is it not used so often?

Don't get too excited. Its cross-browser support is a mess that makes getting HTML 3.2 layers work to on IE4 and Netscape feel like a party.

It is used often. All the WYSIWYG editors out there use it.