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Manishearth
Manishearth

Reputation: 16188

History of contentEditable alternatives

Related: ContentEditable Alternative

I'm quite sure that there were online WYSIWYG editors and the like before contentEditable. I do recall using GDocs and GMail with rich-text features that acted nearly the same as contentEditable.

So, I'd like a (preferably technical) history of how such things were designed before contentEditable existed. If the history of workarounds is long, you need not explain all the details - just the basic idea so that I can look it up (links appreciated, though), and/or figure it out for myself.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1613

Answers (1)

AlfonsoML
AlfonsoML

Reputation: 12690

contentEditable was introduced with Internet Explorer 5.5; yes that long ago. That's a little bit earlier than any GMail, GDocs or anything like that.

Before that IE provided editing capabilities with a custom ActiveX Control (that was used in FrontPage for example)

You can read a full history at the WHATWG blog

Upvotes: 5

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