Aslak Raanes@aslakr@mastodon.social: @fedicat Does it work reliably on rich text, i.e. …

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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe (2026-06-18 12:43:10)
trying out the TextDiffing package that #pipilo uses for showing post edit history
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Aslak Raanes@aslakr@mastodon.social (2026-06-18 12:52:32)
@fedicat Does it work reliably on rich text, i.e. HTML elements?


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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe (2026-06-18 13:08:41)
@aslakr I convert the HTML to plain text before passing it to TextDiffing, so it's not going to catch formatting changes. Unfortunately, the edit history doesn't include the typed-in source, only the HTML generated by the server.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/StatusEdit/#content

https://github.com/simonbs/TextDiffing