[QUESTION] Do you have plans to remove dependency on Document.execCommand in RTE?

[mikeholczer]

I noticed that in #74 when the move to the Pell based editor is listed it's use of Document.execCommand was mentioned as a liability. I see now that according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand it's consider Obsolete, so we were wondering if you have plans to switch to a new editor?

[artf]

so we were wondering if you have plans to switch to a new editor?

New editor? What would be the alternative?

[mikeholczer]

What additional information are you looking for? I did a quick google and found https://quilljs.com/ doing a quick search of it's source on github, the only use of execCommand I see is https://github.com/quilljs/quill/blob/fd400525d551315b6fa9a4d4783e1c7dbad57827/formats/image.js#L32 which sounds like minimal impact.

[artf]

No, I mean a native alternative

[mikeholczer]

Why does it need to be a native solution? That account also has a lower level system in https://github.com/quilljs/parchment which is what they used to implement the editor.

[artf]

I'd like to avoid putting external libraries in the core library (indeed we still have to extract some of them).
If you need quilljs you can try to add it as a custom RTE.
I close it as there is no real alternative to the native API (unfortunately)