Re: [w3c/editing] Removal of browser built-in Undo stack functionality from contenteditable (#150)

It's like with `<input type=range>`. You can totally replicate this functionality using a third-party JS library. But it's faster and lighter to have a native widget provided by the browser.

It's not that I'm a fan of `contenteditable` and `execCommand()` in particular. If there was a better native "textarea with formatting", preferably with standardized underlying HTML, I would be all over it, and I'm sure *many* other projects would also find it useful. One idea is forum/blog comments (like the one I'm typing right now). You don't need a full-fledged MS Word clone with images and tables for that. But boldface/italics/links would be nice. Right now the prevailing solution is Markdown. You need to know the markup codes. Separate boxes for writing and for previewing. Works OK for developers, but normal users would probably prefer something WYSIWYG, don't you think?

PS. My site gets ~800,000 visits per month.

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