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

@johanneswilm  I see how my statement was problematic. You are absolutely right. Using an editor like pell for any serious editor work (copy-past in particular) is pure madness. IMHO execCommand has inherent problems and should be deprecated. 

I was more thinking about an alternative for input forms, where you maybe want to support bold, italic, underline. Or use-cases like TypeIt: it is a really nice website and the author apparently put much work into creating a tiny fast website. I see that it is frustrating that editors with input-validation are so large. I have not yet seen an editor with input-validation that is smaller than 40kb (this is the size of TypeIt website, compressed). Although I'm sure it is possible to write a tiny editor with input validation.

I'm not sure if using an editor based on native browser features is the right solution in these cases, but I definitely see why people are compelled to use them. If you do, you should be aware that copy-paste will almost always break the editor content. In the case of TypeIt it is probably an acceptable trade-off.



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