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by silvestrov 5814 days ago
Same problem here: the one feature that all these editors lack is the ability to restrict what kind of formatting that the users can create.

In a system I've created for a client, some users are allowed to use e.g. bold and italic, but most users aren't (because they would go overboard and make every other word bold). Post-scrubbing the edited html often breaks the editing experience, and browsers have lot's of bugs in contenteditable.

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Hi all, we try to address this issues (bugs of the browsers and functionally to restrict to defined formatting) with Aloha Editor. For ex. we have more than 80 unit tests for the ENTER button. One of those is hitting the ENTER in a H1 Tag. The current is a release in an early development state and we want to focus on reliability and basic functionality (be able to write without errors) in first step.