Re: [editing-explainer] Can we use textnodes, and block/inline nodes as shadow roots for transparent IME handling? (#57)

> if the editor is serializing the edited content as HTML, then the HTML parser will create a single text node instead of two text nodes that are adjacent to each other since HTML isn't round trip safe for such a DOM tree.

True, but that's why normal HTML isn't a good enough format to store part of the DOM in when doing collaborative editing based on contenteditable=true. Instead we've had to create a script that serializes it to json so that sibling text nodes are preserved. See this open source project: https://github.com/fiduswriter/diffDOM


> Similarly, regardless of whether the app decides to insert text or not, the browser doesn't do anything with the caret element or the text nodes around it.

I think we need to be more specific. Else we will create problems for collaborative environments. Especially if browsers behave differently.

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