[josephg]

I disagree. Rich text editors on the web are already a massive hack, because there aren’t any built in input elements which support rich text. There’s just contentEditable and textarea (plain text). There’s no such thing as “doing it properly” when it comes to rich text. Editors have to hack around what the browser provides via a million event handlers. And - surprise! Mobile browsers don’t expose the same events as desktop browsers.

The right fix is for browsers to have a real rich text element of some sort. Then editors wouldn’t need all their hacks. And mobile browsers would be able to behave correctly when you tap on some editable rich text.