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It would be interesting to see something like this for "rich text" editors, too. Where it's not just text, but might include formatting instructions or even media. Would be especially nice if one could contrast something from the WordStar era with 90s OO tech (flyweight objects?) to whatever's currently in vogue (functional shenanigans?).


I feel that rich text is sadly something our trade has mostly just given up on. What's in vogue? Still HTML, which is IMO a really really sad state of affairs, since there's basically no way you can cleanly map between HTML and a wysiwyg editor. The simple question of "where is the cursor?" is almost impossible to answer in the general case.


There is a recent wealth of new Web-based rich text editors. ProseMirror, Basecamp's Trix, FastMail's Squire, Guardian's Scribe, Summernote…

Even old ones such as CKEditor plan on updating their engine: https://medium.com/content-uneditable/ckeditor-5-the-future-....


It's certainly good to see some development. I remain skeptical however, until we have an OSS editor available for production use that internally maps (and requires storage) to a sane data model (!=HTML).




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