Content history
Related: ContentEditable Alternative
I'm pretty sure there have been WYSIWYG editors on the internet and the like before contentEditable
. I do recall using GDocs and GMail with rich textual functions, which acted in much the same way as contentEditable
.
So, I need a (preferably technical) history of how things like this were developed before contentEditable
. If the history of workarounds is long, you don't need to explain all the details - just a basic idea so I can find it (links were appreciated though) and / or figure it out for myself.
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contentEditable was introduced with Internet Explorer 5.5; yes, what a long time. This is a bit earlier than any GMail, GDocs, or anything like that.
Prior to this, IE provided editing capabilities with a dedicated ActiveX control (which was used, for example, in FrontPage).
You can read the full story on the WHATWG blog
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