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by wslh·15y ago·view on hn ↗
Seems like the writer technical ignorance forgot something important: a real html5 browser.

The iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone browsers doesn't support designMode/contentEditable on their browsers. So, there is a limit in doing WYSIWYG interfaces like Google Docs.

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Not to take anything away from your comment, but Google Doc's are not build using contentEditable as far as I know. I think they are capturing every input and building the DOM "by hand".
This is from a new Google Docs Document:

<body style="background-color: transparent; " contenteditable="true"></body>

Obviously they can do other tricks, but doesn't work without changes on mobile browsers.

Seems like you somehow attribute being "a real html5 browser" to supporting contentEditable. Not sure if technical ignorance plays any part there, but just for your interest: contentEditable/designMode first appeared in IE5.5: that's the summer of 2000. WHATWG was formed in 2004.
Seems like you must recheck others ignorance:

http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-contenteditable#hi...

Also you can see latest commits about it. Or you want a comment saying: contentEditable was working since Google Chrome x.y.z.d, Mozilla Firefox a.b.c.d, Opera t.y.u.i, unknown browser p.l.m.n, etc?

Full support for the HTML5 Audio API is also necessary.