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by dmbaggett 5145 days ago
We really need to escape the tyranny of the browser "design mode," with all its quirks. These RTEs are really lipstick on a pig, sadly.

Does anyone know of a JavaScript RTE that does all the text layout and formatting itself using pure JS?

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The RTE for Google Docs is written in Javascript, bypassing design mode:

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-different-about...

The code isn't officially released anywhere, but someone grabbed the source, prettied it up, and put it up here: https://github.com/benjamn/kix-standalone Obviously you can't use it for anything without a proper license.