EditorDS

A browser editor that Doesn't Suck

In-browser editors have one thing in common - they all suck. They're heavy, slow, and don't look nice. The formatting you get out on the other side is dodgy at best. The built-in editor feature varies wildly between browsers. Something that should have been a nailed-down, standardised feature across all browsers years ago is instead a fetid, rabid crocodile waiting to bite developers in the arse.

EditorDS is a project to create a browser editor that Doesn't Suck. I'm essentially building a word processor from the ground up, using HTML5's Canvas and a bit of Javascript and JQuery.

The design goals are for it to look good, be slim and fast, offer only essential features, and purposefully not work in old browsers. Backward compatibility be damned - if you're too lazy to have upgraded your web browser in the last year, then you don't deserve to use this super-cool editor.

I'm only planning ASCII support and minimal formatting. You won't even be able to change your font. You shouldn't get to change your font if you're using your editor to write a web page - that should happen in your front-end design. If you need to build middleware to speak to your word processor to include the last 200 songs you listened to while it scoures the web for cat pictures for you, then this isn't the editor for you. This editor is going to be about words.

Since I know nothing about developing word processors, I'm working it out as I go. If you'd like to get involved with advice, code, or moral support, it would be greatly appreciated.

Feature List

1. Catch typing and write letters on canvas
2. Move cursor with typing
3. Move cursor with arrows forward and backward
4. Delete
5. Wrap lines
6. Move cursor to next and previous lines
7. Move cursor by line with arrows up and down
8. Fix multiline delete
9. Clean up cursor handling
10. Moving cursor with mouse
11. Blinking cursor
12. Selecting
13. Bug when selecting from first char
14. Deleting selection
15. Formatting system
16. Bold
17. Italic
18. Underline
19. Strikethrough
20. Font sizes
21. Hard line breaks
22. Soft line breaks
23. Images
24. Tables
25. Copy and pasting
26. Spellcheck
27. …
28. WIN!