Request: ContentEditableDisabled: add insertCharacter(s) and deleteCharacter(s) to the DOMCommandTokenList

Hi,

I am new here. I stumbled over the draft for ContentEditableDisabled
while again searching for a solution to hinder extensions writing in the
DOM of our editing web application.

We use ContentEditable only to get key/IME events and cursor traveling.
We (try to) hinder the browser to make any changes to the DOM on it's own.

The reason is that we use the concept of "operations", and if somebody
else but our own code manipulates the DOM, the positions from operations
become invalid.

https://www.slideshare.net/Malte.Timmermann/ox-documents-explained

ContentEditableDisabled could be THE solution for our problem.

Unfortunately, simple text manipulations seem to be out of scope of the
ContentEditableDisabled API.

I am pretty sure there are many Apps out there who could benefit of
disabling all unwanted DOM manipulations including simple key input.
CKEditor must have the same problem, not sure how Jira implements the
collaborative editing. In the end, every app that manipulates rich
content in a collaborative way could benefit.

Do you think it would be reasonable to add insertCharacter(s) and
deleteCharacter(s) (or "text" instead of "character" ) to the
DOMCommandTokenList?

Might look strange for people on first glance, but in certain scenarios
this is a critical thing.

Best regards,
Malte.

Received on Friday, 23 October 2020 21:15:03 UTC